Planting trees in the cold mist today.  

If you are worried about transferring reservations from the previous owner to you, perhaps doing STRs isn't your cup of tea. 

Something like planting a tree or building a little breakfast nook or something.You'll get your "fix" while not gumming up the works.I used to like building a beautiful custom dining table that I'd just leave in the house with a little note like, "Welcome home!

We added a new driveway and cleaned up the landscape and also removed trees from in front of the kitchen and dining windows to brighten the inside.

Big players such as Bill Gates are buying massive amounts of land and destroying millions of trees, turning regular farms into GMO farms.

I decided to shift my research away from Joshua Tree/Yucca Valley due to saturation.

I put that tenants are responsible for light bulbs, trimming bushes, weeding.I also put in the lease what the tenants can not do--paint, change fixtures, cut down trees, etc.

Tree branches had broken off and penetrated the roof, large front porch was rotted etc.

Many of you probably know about (or worse have lost money with) the erentpayment.com SNAFU; I was lucky that I had payments processed right before this all happened. (Link for those that are interested: BP erentpaymen...

It is pretty close to being our dream house...the things that make it unique: inside the city of Atlanta but has a Buckhead estate feel - circle driveway, gates, 1.3 acres, mature trees and estates surrounding.