If you use the A/C a lot in the summer, it will cut down on your electric bill dramatically.Today's mini-split heat pumps are insanely efficient, can provide heat down to -5*F or below outside temps, and cool amazingly well.

Maybe they don't celebrate Christmas or the gift is something they don't want.

There have been inexplicably long delays, and often he just ignores repairs.I closed on my home early last summer.

Another of Uuuhhh's tricks is to constantly unplug the dehumidifier which needs to run in the basement in the summer time, I caught him doing that every time I came to check the place.Rental payments aside, I'm hoping I can throw him out for either missing utility payments, or property damage.

Did that for another year and quit entirely last summer. 

I wrote them a letter (sent to their home address), maybe early summer, saying I was interested in talking if they wanted to sell it since it had been sitting vacation for so long.

Last summer, I had a property manager place tenants in one side of a duplex. 

I made offers in Everett & Malden summer 2019, came close, got out bid by an extra $10-20k for ok homes, but that was already after offering $20k over asking.

We are a military family and we are waiting to find out where we will be moving to this summer.

Having said all this I'm gonna be honest, I haven't done an STR yet but I plan on buying my 1st this summer as a vacation home and that's my plan.