But part of the renovation process is eliminating those headaches from the house itself now, so they don't cause problems later.

It's helpful but also can cause you to go down rabbit holes with research and so on.So, to answer your original question, I am on a similar path to saving money for a down payment and to have some cash reserves and I am using Betterment.

Inflation isn't necessarily caused by new purchases, a large component of it is a psychological expectation of higher prices.As far as new purchases leading to higher inflation, I barely even saw a slowdown in my market (North Dallas) and very few price cuts.

The biggest things I took away were 60 day notice (2 full months) to modify rent or terminate and leases that offer the most LL protections are 6 months or 12 months because you can terminate without cause (if occupied less than 12 months) with 2 full months notice.   

just to make it match the rest of the pics.or (if you could get more money for the rental--upgrade the grotto to something that more matches the quality of the house.But if it were mine, I'd probably just clean the area and take a new pic.I can't see any weakness that would cause a weekday vacancy other than that might be the traffic pattern for that area.You could always drop the weekday rent and see if you fill up.

This could cause a reduction in new prospective tenants. 

If you have loans on the property, be sure to talk to your lender and verify this will not cause any problems with them.Here's a basic summary of LLCs:An LLC is useful for two things: anonymity and legal protection.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.

You should only have to change when your current software has a flaw or lacking feature that is causing you to spend too much work on a work-around.

We don’t know any PMCs to recommend in the area mentioned, but since selecting the wrong PMC is usually more harmful than selecting a bad tenant, you might want to read our series about “How to Screen a PMC Better than a Tenant”:https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/3094/91877-how-to-screen-a-pmc-better-than-a-tenant-part-1-services-and-processesWe recommend you get management contracts from several PMCs and compare the services they cover and, more importantly, what they each DO NOT cover.