Files too large

[Mark Forest]

I have several houses now and my filing cabinets are getting a little stuffed. I have a separate accordion folder for each house. I keep the original purchase papers, receipts for repairs, credit reports for prospective tenants and the signed leases when I get a tenant, insurance contracts, city inspection forms, and property tax documents. My files are all quite fat and it is difficult to open the drawers to see the file tabs.

What do those of you who have 20 or more houses do? What do you keep? What do you pitch? Is it all in several filing cabinets? My office is not that large. Please help me be more efficient. Thank you in advance for any suggetsions.