Would you leave the air conditioning on when they are gone, or would you turn it off and turn it back on the day they are supposed to arrive? 

I think many people put unnecessary pressure on themselves to get financially free quickly or learn all these different strategies that they forget that just buying and holding a handful of properties will create a ton of equity one day when they are all paid off. 

Currently, I've got:One basement with a leak and horizontal crack forming on an outer wallOne garage with so much hydrostatic pressure that the cinderblock wall is bowing One basement with water seeping in under the baseboards.Recently repaired/added:A flooded crawlspaceA french drain systemRerouted exit plumbing using a pump to bypass backed up/broken drain pipeAll of these jobs range between $1,000 - $8,000.

I would love to do this at my home in California and our counties, under enormous pressure to accommodate low cost housing, have eased zoning restrictions in recent years to make ADU construction feasible. 

So sellers are under pressure to acquire new properties and will do whatever is necessary to buy one, including overbidding, so they won’t have to pay high tax on capital gains.Lastly, many investors are overly optimistic, thinking that higher rent premiums will help to justify the price they’re willing to pay for the property.

If you can easily disconnect the drain pipe at the furnace, and you have access to an air compressor: disconnect the drain pipe, have an accomplice plug a blow gun into the air compressor, and then blow air into the pipe - the same direction the water flows now. 

It's all still up in the air.

Renting by the room sometimes requires the landlord to chase rent and to be the bad guy.Peer pressure kicks in when all roommates (who are usually friends) are responsible for the entire amount .

However, we do need the property to be rented and cash-flowing at least to a 1.21 DSCR.Interest rates are still in the 6s, but we have been seeing downward pressure and I would expect to see rates start to drop within the next month or so.

Be careful of shared air especially right now that is illegal in some places.