The spiral metal staircase leading up to the front door was so steep that after a month our knees were in pain. 

Between my photo copies of government ID, lease where they initial and sign all over, and the signed application with all of their personal information which I verified through a background check, I think it may be difficult for them to succeed with this.I feel a tenant should always pay the credit card fees. 

I also suffer from 'nice-guy-itus.' so I feel your pain.

The owners are feeling pain from their property it could be the children who inherited the property, poor management leading to deferred maintenance, vacancies, and many other inefficiencies.Most owners in this spot are looking for a way to end the pain they are feeling and many will take a path that solves their problems and gives them something in return to justify the sale.

If your lender is being a pain about that, then it's best to heed their advice and if/when you re-fi make it into a DSCR or nonQM loan to have your LLC as the real title holder. 

Good old fashioned calling someone up, sparking a conversation and finding out their motivation/pain points is definitely more effective than mailers.

Usually, 20 to 30 units is the tipping point for self-management, so you might want to keep expanding your doors until you feel the benefits of that cash flow (as well as the pain of the management).  

I imagine Airbnb (the company) has their own wifi.Wifi router just takes the incoming internet signal from a modem (cable or otherwise) unless you have a combo unit.If you have a hardwired incoming internet cable then you can use almost any wifi device.

The situation resolved itself because they decided to move out, and as a precaution I took up the new flooring, installed a vapor barrier, and installed new flooring on top (painful since I had installed it all a year before, but in the end it really just came out to a few months profit).

Many people are in all kinds of situation where some quick cash is way more important than hold on to a destress property that's not doing anything for them but causing pain. 3.