You should give them a pest-free home, then make them responsible for ordinary pest control after that.I also recommend educating yourself on how to handle small pests like this, then educating your tenants to handle it themselves.

So you want to lock in the gains as tax free gains before turning it into a rental.

Feel free to reach out if you have any more specific questions or if you feel like I can help at all.

The consensus, not surprisingly, was that we are in uncertain times but there are certain societal and market fundamentals that make residential rental property, aka SFR and BFR, extremely attractive asset classes, short-term, mid-term and long-term.

She is an independent brokerage that does a lot of short-term rentals and works with investors.

NC and SC have some great markets for short term rentals and you would definitely increase your wealth by splitting the money and buying multiple properties.

Lastly, if you do work with an agent make sure to include a clause to only use them for a short period otherwise if they don't find a tenant you're stuck with wasting time. 

Our jobs base has been growing steadily and we're currently 12-13k rental units short of upcoming demand (based on published jobs coming to the market).  

Many things go wrong in construction, some of which are unavoidable, how the contractor handles those issues is paramount and speaks volumes to their abilities (or lack there of in the cases above).There are no short cuts to construction or dealing with the building and safety/planning departments in cities, they are slower than turtles in almost all cases.

Feel free to reach out with any questions.