Anyone with experience renting to students in Starkville?

My preference is to rent it to a trusty family member or close friend so I can ease into being a landlord and continue making improvements without it being a big issue.

These updates modernized the property, improved its curb appeal, and increased its market value.

Hello all, I have a tenant who overall has been a decent tenant (paid rent on time, let us know if maintenance issues etc) however her lease is coming up next month and she admitted to being unemployed for the past few months.

My favorite (and current go-to) program uses 80% of AirDNA figures for new STR properties without a rental history, but your current rents will provide a much more solid figure for underwriting. 

Normally, the net migration will show you if the property is going to appreciate and jobs tell you if the rents will go up. 

And during inflationary times, our rental rates increase.

Are they abiding by the lease terms, maintaining the rental, paying rent on time, etc?

These updates modernized the property, improved its curb appeal, and significantly increased its market value.

If someone rents the property so that they have office space to run some other business, that is not the same thing as renting the property so they can just re-rent it to someone else for more money.