I think if I were to sell it now I could get around $600k, maybe just below.My company is moving my family and I to NYC and will be covering our housing (rent) for at least a year.

When I went into the Air Force and was stationed in Idaho I started a painting company and had 8 painters working for me while I was a plumber in the Air Force.

It may sound nice to pay a 6% management fee but the extra fees can add up to be more than the other company that charges 10% with no additional fees.

Every professional property management company in the world has maintenance techs doing simple fixture replacements perfectly competently without any special licenses.

I want to pay my credit cards off ($15k) and adopt children (estimated to cost $10-15k) My company will reimburse me the adoption fees, but not until it's finalized so I am hoping to do a HELOC so I can re-use that monies later on for bonus items like a pool or something fun for the kids.

There are a lot of different kind of investors out there and your title company has to understand what they are doing as well as the agents on the other side if it's an on market property. 

I made a great purchase of my first STR in May of this year, made it an outstanding property and handed it off to a prominent PM company to manage.

My thought process was that I was dealing with a sophisticated individual that understands that a company needs to be profitable in order to be able to offer a valuable service.

I had property management once tell me they couldn't do anything because the tenant hadn't given notice yet and still had some property inside when they posted pay or quit, but the power company had told me the heat had been turned off when I called to check (apparently landlord utility revert doesn't work properly if tenant just doesn't pay). 

I am a father of three and also growing an event rental company while growing my real estate portfolio.