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How is Your Vacation Rental Doing?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It seemed reasonable to devote a greater portion to real estate, in order to further diversify our portfolio. Gathering supplies, deep cleaning, locating companies to clean between rentals, posting information on advertisement sites, responding to queries, billing clients, and many more tasks eat time.

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How to Save Money by Downsizing

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Does that inspire you to have a giant clean-out? Just say your current home is a total of 2,800 square feet and your mortgage costs you $2000 per month. Real estate taxes are calculated on the size of the house so a smaller house will attract a lower tax rate. Here is an example of the above exercise.