With that, Iv had the Luxury of Obtaining a Very Wide/Vast amount of Experience & Knowledge.

If you turn all this over to a PM company they will want 30 to 40% of your gross proceeds.I would look at VRBO and see if it is more widely used than Airbnb for a vacation rental.

@Ed LeClair You have quite a wide area there and things can vary considerably between those different cities. 

There is a wide range of services offered by brokerages, so choosing one that fits your needs is important.

I did that and additionally cemented the area, so there is a 2 feet wide walkway all the way around the house.

And another, one guy spoke with the investment department of a well known world wide high tech company and arranged to give real estate investing seminars *at the company* in one of their conference rooms on an ongoing basis.

I've been digging around the forums here, and the far less informative world wide web, about the rules for creating and breaking apart real estate portfolios and I haven't found what I'm looking for.

I think if you try and force it though you may find that they start warning soldiers about your properties and you get "black listed".

As you can tell, you are going to get a wide spread of advice and at the end of the day taking general advice for various people can only benefit you so much. 

Melissa,This house is a cape with the roof line you have, the roof rafters run front to back on the house and from the picture of the attic it shows the ceiling joists run the same direction. now if the room with the ceiling fan is in the front of the house and the kitchen is in the back with the side exterior wall to the left, then that opening was a bearing wall and was removed. not necessarily a bad thing, i figure the house is probably 24' wide ?