The house is not "designed" as an up/down duplex so a fair bit of noise (music, walking, running, voices) can travel between floors, as well as smells with the shared ducting for the house. 

More things can go wrong when you're 1000 miles away and it is much more expensive to travel back to see your property and ensure your property manager is doing what he/she is supposed to be doing.

The plan is to buy and hold while living in it and potentially renting out the spare room to traveling medical professionals intermittently. 

I had not done much inspecting this year due to travel and the pandemic, but when I did right after their last cleaning, I was shocked at how badly it was cleaned.

If you were a long distance out-of-state investor, had a head-shot, and occasionally traveled to see properties and network with other professionals- how much would a lot of tattoo's hold you back?

The current tenants are all for the light well infill because it provides them with more privacy as well as removing noise traveling through their window.

I have been hearing the local radio mention "staycation" as the way forward, as travel isn't appealing to many. 

The other good thing is that the coronavirus will reduce the amount of overall Airbnb's in SA, which will be good for those of us who stick around once people start traveling again. 

Many people are likely to find they don’t have a job to return to in the coming months, especially in businesses that rely on dense clusters of customers such as travel, entertainment and dining out.

We get lots of guests stopping in to rest before catching a flight, doctors and nurses traveling for work, even locals that are just looking to get away for a night out in downtown Phoenix.The tiny guesthouse is currently generating enough income to pay almost the entirity of our mortgage, and we are in the process of refinancing the home to lower my rates and to get rid of my PMI taking advantage of the appreciation we have seen here in the last couple of years.