We film walk-throughs to reduce disruption to tenants and provide buyers with better insight to the condition of the property, and for our own knowledge, so we can better describe the property when asked about it and for listing descriptions.When I do my daily market searches on MLS (Multi Listing Service), I see so many lacking details like mentioning a property is on public water/sewer when it’s not, or forgetting to mention it’s on septic.

From that experience, I knew that if I acted quickly and took control, we could minimize both the inconvenience and the overall disruption for the tenants.I’m curious about your reserve strategy — you mentioned keeping only $5–10K and relying on a high-limit credit card.

This approach keeps things simple, familiar, and fully tracked, without disrupting how landlords and tenants already communicate.It’s not entirely new tech, but I haven’t seen it implemented this way or even offered as an option in any property management tools. 

This is particularly frustrating as the originally booked nights were blocked out, disrupting our calendar availability and revenue stream.

We have kept our rates the same in all our deals, but are lowering the our leverage thresholds by 5% to hedge against potential market disruptions in the coming months.

Maintenance & Repairs: Reactive maintenance, unreliable vendors, and rising repair costs disrupt operations and tenant satisfaction. 2.

Couple options you do have though: 1) Have everyone in the house agree to write statements of said violation2) Let that roommate who is in violation know that you are/willing to escalate if they do not correct their disruptive behavior since it's in the agreement. 3) If they still do not care, let them know you'll seek all avenues to evict them, and you WILL be requesting reimbursement on whatever the costs of doing so are.

Don't listen to middlemen property managers trying to make their job seem harder then it is; they want your business. lolIMO the property management industry is about to be disrupted, think printing press, Model-T, the internet, ai...I've been self-managing my rentals from Iraq for over a decade.

This minimizes disruption if issues arise.

There is a service called HomeShake that is helping disrupt the whole agent model, which may be available in your market.