Personally, I've been investing more than 50 years and never looked at the demographics for a neighborhood one time because I always felt that you need more personal knowledge about the neighborhood e.g. whether it is blue-collar working people, whether it infested with gangbangers, what the ability to increase rents is, etc. and the only way to get a good feeling and understanding is to personally visit the neighborhoods in the daytime, evenings and on weekends because weekends and nighttime is when the bad people come out like cockroaches.

Please note the information provided below is a layman's definition designed to provide a basic understanding for the general audience.

Hope AirBNB will not so obviously treat different people different on cancellation, especially race is one fact!

It cost money to own a house and people normally allocate a percentage of the revenue towards repair, capex, vacancy and property management.

You may want to do the same with the handyman where most of your calls go to your main handyman, but once in awhile use another one to establish a relationship.I have also heard of people using storage units near their properties to store spare TVs, routers, fridges, AC window units, washers, dryers, etc. 

You are totally missing the basic concept that you are putting your money to work in two places at once.

I've basically paid the mortgage on this property for a year with no rental income and a ton of expenses.The other properties had their own set of issues (the IN tenants trashed the property) but this KS property was so stressful, a headache, a hassle, such a financial loss, and I've just felt lied to the whole time I want to sell all of them and get away from it.The IN house has been on the market for 76 days (since this is the first property ready to sell, KS prop.

A motivated seller is anyone willing to sell their house BELOW MARKET VALUE.Most people on MLS are NOT motivated sellers.

Does this seem normal and is there anything I should be asking for from all people involved?

For the lease, many people who self manage find a generic one for their state online, but it’s usually a good idea to have an attorney look it over or even draft one for you to make sure it’s solid and covers all the bases.