Move in-out (including cleaning fee)Did I forget anything?

Pick something fun and interesting that will attract people to your meetup on a regular basis.* Initially, you will have some meetups where either only a few people show up or none at all.

Generally speaking if the credit report is clean, the tenant will pay their bills, including damages.

The best decision I ever made was outsourcing the @Miranda M Vinson  I dreaded the constant communications and cleanings and people with stupid requests and reasonings. 

It use to take me and a guy 3 days to do 1 clean up .

I'm trying to understand if we will need a property manager, or instead, just a handy man service, and a cleaning service, and we'll manage the property ourselves.

A tenant that doesn't call in repair orders all the time, keeps the place clean and never wants to leave is MONEY! 

I don't mind charging lower rents (as long as the numbers work with my plans), but am I going to be stuck at today's low income rental rates while regular rental prices skyrocket?

I am not a CPA so I would ask this question ahead of time, but to my understanding a regular investment property does not qualify as active income even if you are self managing.

I would clean it, prime it with high adhesion primer and apply "porch & floor" paint.