In that situation, this type of exercise leads to your "resume" as an investor.Of course, this would never be applicable to Mike because he is a lone wolf who attracts tenants who are willing to wait for enough maintenance items to accrue to make a trip to their unit worth his time.

I tripped him all up when I asked what he did and why we should exchange contact info.

Even if it's just helping out with demo and taking trips to home depot.

Just to clarify, can the trip cost be expenses or deducted come tax time?

.:-) But a quick shoot out on state land might make their trip very memorable....especially some larger calibers......Our local hardware store down the road sells meat, maybe I'll get some and throw it on the BBQ for them.....

With showings, find out what works best with the tenant and try to stack the showings to minimize disruption and reduce the number of trips you have to make.

It's not just occupancy in the smokies that is ballooning right now it is average daily rate as well, and it's worth considering if a simple 4br no frills cabin will keep renting for $1k/night after the travelers who would typically be doing their summer trip overseas and spending $6k on family plane tickets alone return to that type of travel. 

If the issue happened in Bryson, I'm sure it'd be a road trip for me.

I'm back from my off-road trip in Moab Utah and I will say it is one amazing place.

My GC said, we wouldn't go over weight, we'd just make more trips.