. $250,000 is eligible for tax exemption from capital gains when you sell your primary residence. http://www.irs.gov/publications/p523/ar02.htmlRemember that positive income is a good thing :) If you make money on the rent, make sure you hold some of it back for tax time.

Home owners current and past would be public record or services that spider crawl public record.

You are offering X product to the public with Y terms. 

So we got different lists that we could get from public record and spent the last couple weeks on those.

The DoT is public so you know the date and amount, figure out the prevailing rate at the time of sale and you'll get a good idea of what the balance will be without prepayment.

I fully understand the limits of what you can discuss on a public forum.

It's not bad to set yourself in a good public light, but I would rather invest money into a clean water system for community parks, or perhaps suitable public restrooms for these parks.

Those are very smart steps to prevent getting unfair reviews, it's a very professional and polite way to earn guests trust by giving you more personal and private feedback about their stay; also it's a good way to know if it's worth to ask them to leave a public review.Having a guest book seems like a nice way for knowing better guests behaviour! 

(I did the redaction of names and file #, but the document is public information.)

Also confusing with ADU licenses is that in the public records search sometimes the rental license is listed as multifamily when its an ADU, but there tax record will indicate 1 unit.