This also works if you want to look at real estate on vacation. 

I contact tenants 90 days prior to lease termination and ask if the intend to vacate or renew.

I'm not looking to go on lavish vacations, buy cars or have name brand shoes. 

You claim depreciation which lessens your tax burden for now, ( you pay uncle sam later.)Buy vacation condos...

Keep in mind that this is a lot more than $100/door because I paid cash.I also forgot to add to the list of things I did was replace the side door on the garage and have it painted.I will be adding about $300 to the mix this month to put in a new garage door opener as my regular guy was on vacation.

They are scheduled to meet the second Thursday of every month at 7:00 p.m. at the Mason County Historical Society Museum ... but they may be on break, vacation, have a cold, or otherwise not meeting this month. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_disposal_unitWe have a garbage disposal in our own home that is hooked up to city sewer and we also have a garbage disposal at our vacation home that is hooked up to a septic system.

But in some states short term leases do, like vacation rentals.

I'm a recent transplant from Canada to the US.I remember looking at US properties as a Canadian, and one of the challenges I hit alot was financing; US institutions wanted to see US based W2 income and US credit history (assuming say a pretty straight forward conventional investor mortgage, not a commercial mortgage) that felt like a significant roadblock.One thing to note though is that some of the major Canadian banks (BMO, TD, RBC) have major US operations; and with those, comes the ability to secure financing based on your Canadian source income, and Canadian credit history.This is a phenomenal resource for most Canadians (albeit you're limited often to only one property purchase as part of these programs, and some will restrict it to "vacation/second home" only, no investor/rental).

So I'm in New Hampshire on vacation this weekend ( at our vacation rental) and got chatting with a very nice waitress who it turns out also invests in real estate.