This is going to be a long-term rental and although I won't be living in it, I want my tenants to be safe and feel comfortable if I ever need to sell it so will be doing through extra diligence.

And you also need to be super careful about their 1-yr contract if switching to different a pay model (We are dealing with them for $27000 early cancellation penalty now) Although they have many functions such as generating one listing from Guesty and pushing them to all different platforms, we realize that pushing to multiple platforms is not necessarily generating more income.

That's why we are pretty much stuck on all this.

I can't believe we are having this conversation. 

I recently retired from the military and I don't want to ask for permission to do something reasonable anymore since I had to for 29 yrs.As the owner your little bit of energy savings and wear and tear on the unit will cost you hundreds if not thousands in lost revenue.

We are gradually dropping prices and in some cases remain as one of the few houses remaining in the market.Margins and occupancy percentages are higher than last year do to stronger area demand.

I believe Muskegon through Montague are up and coming vacation areas that have been passed over for a long time.

Long story short, I loaned him 100k :) at 10% APR for 18 months with that balloon payment at the end.

Why do you think purchase contracts are so long and have such small print?

Even if you do paint/stain it, you need to make sure it is clean before doing anything-preparation is everything.Not sure how well paint would stick to those surfaces or wear.