We make a big deal of the fact that we offer typical cable channels plus NFL Sunday ticket.We say if the others guys doesn't have this what other corners are they cutting?

The city of Portland spends around 200k per unit to provide low cost housing for the homeless and those on the edge of homelessness.

To us, this defeats one of the main purposes of having supplemental guest damage insurance, which is to protect our host and property reputations by NOT arguing with guests about the damage. 

To apply this in real life, last week we helped a client put a 1 bedroom cabin about 400 yards from the edge of the Smoky Mountain National Park under contract under $200k, the expected return from a cap rate, cash on cash, or IRR are all deep double digits.If long term appreciation is part of the goal, I'd want to understand long term migration patterns as well, and look at regional parks near places where there is a lot of people moving within 200 miles. 

If I had someone come to me with that, I would probably cut that Bass salary in half if they wanted that type of incentive structure. 

"Market rate" just won't cut it in this environment as it's inherently an illiquid mark. 

Love seeing architects make the leap into development and investing — your background in design and construction already gives you a huge edge.

Some people do credit on occupancy for midterm rentals to push them over the edge to take your place over someone else's. 

For stand-alone houses with yards, I tend to either offer landscaping and grass cutting services as part of the rent, or I install solar powered cameras (connected to the resident's Wifi) that allows remote monitoring of the exterior - if they are handling their own lawncare.

Quote from @Devin Conley: The Reno market does appear to have slowed down a bit this year, but honestly numbers are not totally unusual for the time of year.e.g. monthly absorption rates are down YoY from 33.4% to 29.1% But other key stats like price drop rate are look typical and are actually slightly better YoY (down from 31.7% last August to 29.9% this year) It's not crazy unusual, but August did have some notable things that you don't usually see in an August, like 11% of homes coming off the market unsold, 31 DOM, double last year, and 3.6 months of inventory is the highest August I see in my data, which goes back to 2015.IDK if my personal opinion is necessarily accurate, but I've never paid too close of attention to the price cut rate.