The 15 Essential Items Every Short Term Rental MUST HAVEWhether you're listing your space on Airbnb, VRBO, Homeaway, or with a professional property manager, you will need a whole bunch of items that guests expect to ...

Hi all, I wanted to share my recent experiences with turning our garage studio apartment conversion into a short term rental. We have had great success and so far no real issues. The income has paid for the mortgage f...

Great site. I have been reading through all the past posts, and have noticed that many of you like lower priced housing to use as cash flow properties. I am having a hard time wrapping my head around this $25k figure ...

Hello all, has been a long time...Anyway, need some advice about a situation I had tonight in PA.

About 4 months ago I agree to rent a unit to a girl who I was told, had an alcohol problem in the past, but has been c...

I’m netting 2-3 times what I normally would be renting this unit for w/o Airbnb! And running it like I’m out of the country! Sweet! :) But had some challenges and failures along the way. And some shout-outs to those w...

So I have been actively looking for good investment properties for the last two months. I went and looked at two yesterday that were still tenant occupied. The standards of living are so crummy at the houses that I wo...

I have been around Bigger Pockets now for about a year and have been involved in the nightly rental business for 14 years. Here on Bigger Pockets I read posts from many people who are concerned about getting into the ...

(Disclaimer: I totally took the formatting of this post from another post by Anton Ivanov that I liked a year back!)
A Little Backstory
I am currently 30, married, no kids, living in Gilbert, AZ and working as a fin...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125479559237566623.html?mod=rss_economy

This article is talking about apts nationally. Vacancies continuing to rise and article says they will continue to rise. Tied to unemployment fi...