@Josh Gibson$50 a month is pretty cheap.Keep it up, but perhaps add in that it must be cut at least twice a month, and the yard cleaned of trash or normal sticks and excessive leaves.

The perfect combination is a section 8 tenant with SSI/SSDI and unemployed...we trade safe, clean, and appropriately priced units, for a long term tenant that pays rent on time, every time.In reality, none of us are real estate investors, or landlords, we're housing providers...and as a society, the progress of the most vulnerable is a direct reflection on all of us...and in the US, we're close to the worst in the civilized world at housing people.

LewisThe older I get and the more experiences that have shaped my being the more I have grown to understand that value judgement is necessarily rooted in both tradition and some deep narrative and the individuation of those charged with providing benevolent constraints masquerading and protection from one’s ignorance.

If there are no changes, I'd still do a new lease so everything is clean. 

He hired a cleaning crew to clean the place.He managed to get the place rented out for $150/month more than I thought, and the new tenant had been there now for several years.

So I spent more of my time going to every unit after every cleaning making sure my cleaner had the units 100% flawless.

They try to do everything themselves... find the property... fix the property... rent it out... clean it -- WHY would any investor want to do the cleaning?!

Lake is 270 acres, 25' deep.

To do a first investment as a short-term rental and win, you have to know the market, understand the HOA structure and allowability in FL, you have to know the management costs (could be 15-20%), and the science behind pricing, changeover/cleaning, and competition in the market.

I did some simple things (painted the purple columns, cleaned up the yard and swept the parking lot)How did you finance this deal?