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.

When they finally move out, you'll discover a ton of unreported maintenance and possibly damage caused by failure to maintain.Landlords should encourage tenants to report maintenance issues.

Toledo's Lucas County Metropolitan Housing Authority...LMHA which administers the Section 8 program seems to have had a difficult 2016 and 2017 doesn't seem much better.I've been renting to Section 8 for seven years now, I still have my original tenant in fact, and normally I find great satisfaction in renting to good tenants and working with the bureaucracy that comes with a government program...I had 10 properties rented section 8 at one point and have slowly prioritized standard rentals over the program and now am seeing blatant issues with their operations causing me to move away from considering their tenants.Delays in the program: We used to have 5 business day's delay for new-tenant vouchers to be reviewed and processed for inspection but have been going weeks before we hear anything.

Even if every Concrete crew was "legal", wages would pull them to other low paid laborer jobs such as landscaping, house framing, meat packing, etc, causing wages and cost to go up for new Self Storage Construction, let alone availability.Security Systems- yep sourced overseas, China.Interest rates going lower, but I expect Inflation to go higher.

I need to do research once I get settled somewhere (our other house was heavily damaged by trees falling on it) but thought I'd ask this forum in the meantime.I'm grateful for any advice that you have, and I hope everyone is safe.Talk to your insurance agent ASAP.

Cause this could be an avenue to explore as well.  

Budget $15-$20k for a rewire.To take it a step further, if you build a relationship with your subcontractors they may even teach you how they estimate so you can repeatedly build a robust estimate completely on your own.Excluded from the above is foundation issues & outages in the framing (often caused by foundation issues).

Security Deposits are for damage to the unit, not rent.

We are with you every step of the way……..until your check clearsplease do a thorough vetting of any investment you make, at least if it is a size where a loss will cause you concern.   

Cause any great deal you find in those channels, be certain dozens of other investors are also stumbling upon it, but that's what I would do if I wanted to stay in the home market and had that type of capital.Or, find a market where you can get into a house for 90k - 110k and then you're in a market where you make need 30k - 40k in capital to see it through to the exit.