Additionally, the house is 25 years old and could use cosmetic updates to increase rental appeal.

If your property's value has increased since you bought it... given the market trends in Albany, that's quite possible... you could tap into that equity sooner than you might think.

My terms are identical to yours as far as the 1-year lease with 3 options to renew (for them), 3% yearly rent increase, etc.

So what kind of property would it take for you to increase your cash flow by $2000 - $3000 a year. 

I focused on adding modern luxury amenities to increase the property’s appeal to the high-end market.

Just sent them a rent increase notice every year.

PS is revolutionary because of how it has simplified access to all of the various data points investors need to make a decision and because of this its extremely popular.You do not want to be using a popular lead source to increase deals because everyones chasing the same deals.And nothing will change with there data because there business model forces them to have to buy and license the data they get which means waiting for the county/databroker to send it to them which guarantees anyone using PS data will be behind the counties, only getting a fraction of the leads and getting those late leads the same time as everyone else.How do you get access to the leads first.

The shorter the prepayment term has an impact on increasing the rate.4.

It will be cheaper than our mortgage and our incomes will be increasing.

It’s just going to slowing increase with inflation.