Thanks Joseph for  response and congratulations on your achievements.

Thanks for your response.

For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, saying, 'This person began to build and wasn't able to finish.  

You'll probably get a lot of different responses here, but my opinion is, I never like being 100% leveraged.

well, I guess nobody knows where to find him and the one person who is reselling his materials is terrible at marketing and doesn't respond to email questions.

If you know it is allowed in the area you are looking, but have seen one person have a problem, I wouldn't make a big change to my thinking based on a single incident.I haven't heard of anyone having the same issue.

You have a debilitated fence-- as a landlord fix that ****.And firmly let the tenant know he needs to be responsible for his dog.

I netted enough to make a decent profit AND my guests and I got personalized attention that is critical to STR success.

I've emailed them several times without a response.

Be sure to spell out in your leases if you do go this route who is responsible for repairs to this type of damage.