You arent in the "Airbnb business" you are in the short term rental business. you basically operate a franchise and you need to take all business items into account.As to your idea, i personally dont like it. a 2/2 generally makes more money than a 1/1.

By the time they tour the property, you already know the basics and can focus on seeing if they’re a good fit personality-wise.3.

David, I have closed on basically ALL my short sales when they had less than 30 days.

Are we making calculations for a bank, taxes, or just basic deal outcome analysis? 

Answer this though,  if I don't do basic granite & do like formica wouldn't that limit my ROI? 

I found him after he was on a panel at a conference I attended, then just did some basic background searching and found a few business journal articles talking about previous successful investments.

Quick tip on expense tracking: QuickBooks has a basic ledger version that runs only about $10/month, and it’s a solid way to keep tabs on all your property-related ins and outs without overcomplicating things.

I'd rather refi 5% of the equity every year and take that as a tax-free cash out - basically indefinitely.

In some EU countries like Spain and especially Portugal, foreigners can get a mortgage and they can get finance up to 80% of the acquisition cost and therefore basically use free money from the bank.

Yes, if you do something in the dumbest, stupidest way possible throwing out all the rules of basic operation, yeah, duh, bad things will happen.