I spoke with the tenant and said the shower will be needing new tile so while the toilet will be operable, the shower won't.

Join your local investment club; there you will find folks that speak the same language. 

Just as long as the owner is someone who will actually take care of them. 

Hi @Dwight Will . 

What's stopping you from just giving notice to all tenants, or to the new tenant specifically, that the common areas need to be cleared of all personal items and will be removed in 24-48 hours if they're not already removed? 

This is a great post and will continue to follow the discussion.

There's a great book called Every Landlord's Legal Guide published by NOLO that will give you some great basic advice on how the process works, you may want to buy that.

This will ensure you have no problems running your STR for years to come.

Since the money gets paid out on a 1099, it will have to be taxed.Someone offices will waive the commission if the agent does a certain amount of business.

@Nathan Gesner is absolutely correct, as usual.Here’s the basic financial information you will need1.