But certain areas like mortgage lending are hurting, bad, and we are seeing areas of additional risk-taking to try to make additional $.

I also have a resource I can send you that walks you thru a lot of marketing pointers for STR hosts. 

Can someone please walk me thru this?

Appliances walk off here more common than I'm comfortable with and there's just no need for me to provide them even in a competitve since of other section 8 providers here. 

Tip  People love trees, boulders, water, views, walk out basements.

., I think it is interesting when PM's charge all of these additional fees ontop of their monthly PM fee percentage.

Able to get the seller to agreed to knock down another $10g, in addition to the repairs and inspection fees.

I have read through everything.However, I still feel like there is some type of value to using the monthly cash flow (not pulling any additional cash out of my pocket each month) to pay down the debt and thus build equity. 

Of course that increases with thickness, the addition of insulation boards, radiant heating, rockwool, etc.

Additionally, I added a new boiler, installed air conditioning mini splits, and refinished the original hardwood flooring throughout the house.