Equity is great, but it is undefined, and untouchable (useless) until you sell the property, so you can't count that as profit until you can count it as money (cash).Riddle me this Batman:  How many properties can a REI sustain at one time, if they are paying for the tenants to live there?

Thus, if the market take a big downturn, the property should be able to sustain itself.

Pretty much all furniture and appliances were from fb marketplace.

This whole deal is my first big step of breaking free of the golden shackles I'm in now and charting my own course of doing what I love - sustainable development. 

This is in Joplin, MO for reference.For example, we left behind a piece of furniture to be used in the house.

The exuberant appreciation and rent increases is not sustainable and at some point there will have to be a correction.

I hope to find some cheap labor to assist with furniture assembly and other random items.

Another is look at the places around yours and make sure you are doing more than they are, whether that is providing more amenities, better pictures, more furniture even.

What about a floorplan, so prospects can envision where their furniture may go?

Putting private money into furniture and decor on the STR side, and using private money partner in the deal.