I AirBnB a couple of my spots and as I said in a previous post, if you have a decent location you are getting a nice to huge premium using AirBnB over normal rents.The long term forecast is much less rosy as city's look to extort more taxes and fees, the hotel lobby mobilizes against AirBnB, and the market becomes saturated thus lowering the margins.My advice is to ride the gravey train while you can and if your buying mainly to AirBnB look for additional exit strategys

-What is the normal amortization length for investor financed SFHs?

I am normally not the color selector on our projects, as you can tell. 

I know I need to run this like a business, and normally would hold them to the lease, but this is sort of a unique situation as you can tell.  

I think I read ~$.60 per card is normal.

This is a company I do consulting for, so I'm not in there daily and though, I COMPLETELY agree that I could make things awkward, it will all be water under the bridge given a normal amount of time.Thanks for everyone's advice.I certainly learned some lessons.  

Normally it would cost you 4.5%-6% in realtor fees to sell it and 3% closing costs to buyer. 

Example a bank drops a foreclosure 15k below normal to sell with a tenant in place.In my world the discount is too small because I know what will be involved.

Small claims is a court of equity as well as the letter of the law, no normal judge would "assume" someone moved into a place that was "thrashed" that's ridiculous. 

It seems like a pretty good deal to me but I suppose it is just normal to be a little nervous when setting up your first property.