In all, I much preferred renting to regular tenants.

Basically, an assessment is nothing more than what a municipality decides a property is worth in order to tax it based upon that value.Additionally, although cities and towns are mandated to perform assessments regularly (in CT they're supposed to update assessments every 5 years), that assessment can still be quite old and outdated.

So, my fiancee and I are taking the plunge with this condo which we plan to rent out by the week as a vacation home.We are planning to provide an upscale vacation rental experience for our guests and hopefully build a regular clientel over the next few years. 

Feel free to connect here and interact in the forums.

No sure about thermo foil or regular foil I am not looking to put the foil on the counter tops, just the cabinets.

Read and interact with as many people as you can on this site and look for a local REI group in your area.Best of luck.Paul

Here are some of the ones I attend regularly.  

You should connect with @Brie Schmidt Haven't been to the meetup yet but it seems more active an promising than the other groups I know about in this area.There are a few other regular meetings in the suburbs but that's a bit difficult for me to attend. http://www.careia.org/

Because I'm in a crazy fire area, I can't get regular insurance on my property, so I have to go with a specialty insurer (like Lloyds of London) through a broker.  

It would generally include everything outside of the studs.Do they have enough in their operating account or do they use reserves (constant borrowing) to fund regular operations.