When it comes to rental property investments, choosing between short-term and mid-term rentals can significantly impact your strategy, revenue, and management style. Both offer unique benefits and challenges, depending on your goals as a host or investor. Let’s break down the differences so you can decide which model best suits your needs.

Short-Term Rentals: The Fast-Paced Income Generator

What Are They?

Short-term rentals typically include vacation homes, Airbnb listings, and temporary housing for tourists and business travelers. These stays usually last anywhere from a single night to a few weeks.

Pros of Short-Term Rentals

✅ Higher Revenue Potential – Nightly rates for short-term rentals tend to be much higher than traditional leases, which can result in significant income.
✅ Flexibility – You can block off personal stays, adjust pricing based on demand, and change your rental terms more frequently.
✅ Tax Advantages – In some areas, short-term rentals may qualify for special deductions or tax breaks compared to long-term leasing.
✅ Market Responsiveness – You can easily adapt to travel trends, peak seasons, and local events, maximizing profitability.

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Presenters from the National Fair Housing Alliance will review:
 Special Purpose Credit Programs and the intersection of fair housing
 Best practices around community-based equity-focused homeownership
 Highlights of their publication “First Generation Foundations: A Guide to Advancing Equity with First Generation Homeownership Programs”

Ohio Presenters from County Corp and Homeport will:
 Discuss the opportunities they provide in their communities
 Their local equity-based homeownership programs
 Other services that enhance their communities

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The Families Flourish Program, (FFP), includes a mobility component to move families into neighborhoods and school districts that assist in a families’ specific career and educational development. FFP needs participating landlords who accept a subsidy as a part of the full market rate rent. This enables families to advance in their careers, create stability for the family through things like increased savings for college and aid minor children with superior educational opportunities. The subsidies continue for three years.  This is a successful program in Columbus, Ohio and is being expanded into the Miami Valley Region. 

Click HERE for a PDF version of the Participating Landlord Program.

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT REGARDING CTA:

March 2, 2025

The Treasury Department is announcing today that, with respect to the Corporate Transparency Act, not only will it not enforce any penalties or fines associated with the beneficial ownership information reporting rule under the existing regulatory deadlines, but it will further not enforce any penalties or fines against U.S. citizens or domestic reporting companies or their beneficial owners after the forthcoming rule changes take effect either. The Treasury Department will further be issuing a proposed rulemaking that will narrow the scope of the rule to foreign reporting companies only. Treasury takes this step in the interest of supporting hard-working American taxpayers and small businesses and ensuring that the rule is appropriately tailored to advance the public interest.

“This is a victory for common sense,” said U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.  “Today’s action is part of President Trump’s bold agenda to unleash American prosperity by reining in burdensome regulations, in particular for small businesses that are the backbone of the American economy.”

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     As a beginning investor and newer REIA member, I haven’t had many opportunities yet to discover the potential impact of also being a National REIA and Home Depot ProXtra member.   I am a homeowner though, so of course I have things that break and appliances that wear down that I have to get fixed.  
     I’ll spare you all the messy details, but suffice it to say, my refrigerator recently became too much to deal with and sent me on the hunt for a replacement. I started immediately with a search on the Home Depot app, where I’m registered with my ProXtra discounts, and I wasn’t disappointed!  
     I didn’t need anything top of the line or anything, and with my discounts, I saved a whopping 33% off with ProXtra discount and found a solution under $500!  I also checked around at some major competitors and their prices for the same refrigerator, including discounts, still came in around $50-$100 more. 

Could I have gotten a used refrigerator somewhere else for less? Maybe, but who knows how much life would be left on a large, used appliance like this? Better to go new and trusted, and as bot
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Last year, Dayton Police were able to send a Detective representative to speak with our members and guests about effective methods for protecting their property investments! 

One major concern from many members was that of "squatters", and Dayton Police had a lot of great information to share including these forms on their Right of Entry Program.  This program allows owner, co-owners, and property managers to assign permission for Dayton Police to enter the property when it qualifies under the circumstances and conditions listed in the program.   

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  This form details the Right of Entry Program

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  This form give the actual permission for entry