It is also hard to predict timing if mid-term rentals will extend.

Fortune smiled on you with your previous long-term tenant. 

Everyone has opinions but some are not based in reality.If you are not providing significant services, like daily cleaning, on site chef for meals, custom tours etc. you should be filing on a schedule E. https://theshorttermshop.com/is-short-term-rental-schedule-e...

3 bdr 2 bath finished and remodeled home, 4,700 sq ft lot. Price $170,000Rental income $1,750Insurance $1500 /yrTaxes $5000 /yrNo HOAWould this be a good deal?I do want to manage it myself eventually, but we will have...

My name is Kathryn, and I'm intending to start a mid-term rental unit similar to yours in the near future.

I think following that advice would be very helpful for you.To piggyback off of what he said, I'd focus on the long term vision.

I'm planning to have ROI, rents, cashflow, expenses, debt service, repairs/maintenance, return on equity, appreciation (I think this works over the long-term, kind of hard to predict in the short term especially with what we've seen in the last few years, but I usually conservatively estimate this anyway at 2%) and return on equity.

We considered investing in the area and passed on it for several reasons:1.Primarily a short term rental market2.

However, we have a long-term plan to accumulate more than 10 properties and want to be strategic in the way we structure which one of us is on each of our loans now so that we can max out at 20 Fannie/Freddie loans in our individual names. 

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