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Old 08-06-2019, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by JudyLife View Post
I bought a 3/2 CYV in Hadley which I’d like to rent Jan-March/April 2020. Any guidelines regarding selecting renters? Is there a list of blacklisted renters anywhere?
I owned short term vacation rentals in Myrtle Beach for 16 years. I always used a property manager who sent a cleaning crew in after each renter. Even with that, my rental units there always had damage and theft which I had to repair or replace annually. As such, the units were very vanilla because if you put something nice in there and it wasn't caught missing by the cleaning crew you were out of luck. Personally, with what I have seen,

Personally, I would never rent out a house short term that I ever intended to live in. We bought here and didn't actually move here for a year after purchase. It sat empty when we weren't here. Just not worth it.
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