He said he received an email from her or the ll, he didn’t go into detail about the email but said tenants usually try to dispute or deny it.

If you discover a great opportunity on your sail you might leverage that knowledge at the end of the trip.

First I would never make the tenant responsible for HOA, the HOA cost is an underlying LL responsibility just like property tax.

I'm a little scared ..now that the housing drones have unliiked it ...I never heard of any of this in the 13 years I have been a LL.

As you discovered, 90% of the landlord experience hinges on quality tenant selection and placement. 

Funny enough, I didn't care for how any of them conducted business in certain areas, but I took the good and threw the bad  and discovered my own identity :) I understand being on a team is not for everyone, and you may want to hit the ground running solo from the get-go, but that's just my two cents.Good luck on your journey and let me know if I can help with anything else!

Perhaps join a local REI or LL association and attend meetings.

Boomers are just now discovering them and are realizing the benefits of staying at one.1) You made the mistake of having anything to do with social media, and 2) You are looking at AirBnB which is kinda the poor white trash of the business.....sure they're huge, but look at the reasons why......you can rent someone a room, a tent, a cot in your backyard.......renting out substandard places to stay leads to p**sed off clients.Anyone that thinks about this with any amount of reason will understand that vacation rentals are not going anywhere.

If you close on the property and then discover the roof is leaking, the main sewer line is nothing but tree roots, really any major expense, that can easily put a borrower in a position where they do not have enough actual cash to solve the problem, so the property loses value due to deferred maintenance, or the borrower digs themselves into more debt, making it even harder to get another loan to cash me out of the equation at that upper 20% of equity.

Once discovered by SSA, it gets adjusted and a request for refund of the overpayments is issued.