Gas furnaces actually have a very long lifespan if cared for.Make sure the furnace filters are changed/cleaned regularly.

Here's a solid lawyer's perspective of the half-dozen-plus ways that a crowdfund site can organize themselves under securities law.

I then rented for regular price when traffic picked up.

We actually do the cleaning now as part of our regular maintenance, because it is in our best interest to do so.

if you have great credit, solid assets and great income, sure,,, it would be based purely on your financial situation and wouldn't be secured by any properties.Banks prefer to have something to secure a loan with, so an open line of credit will be limited by your credit and ability to pay.

Any regular meetings going on in LI?

Next step is deciding who will speak at my meetup and securing a location and exact date.

Check out the city on VRBO and see what a typical property like yours rents for and how booked up they are.It would require more management, but a lot of those VRBO properties are very automated and I imagine you could put systems in place to have even fewer headaches than a regular rental if done properly.

I challenge ALL BP members to regularly ask the question,"So what if I do 20% fewer deals because I refuse to exploit all the loopholes I know about????" 

As soon as we hear a tenant plans to move out, we send them a move-out package - including the move-in inspection report, and tell them specifically what they need to do to get the place back to move-in condition in order to receive their security deposit back.