., No substitute for boots on the ground! 

I have a partner that lives in Kansas City, KC that will be boots on the ground.

That's five houses on 200 to 500k lots  LOL.. houses went away and we build new construction or sold lots.. its quite sad but all were owner occs none were tenants.. usually tenants get booted before they can get as bad as these homes were.. these homes were beyond salvage plain and simple.

If you believe you need a lawyer to boot them in the butt you are try to hang on to tenants that will ultimately cost you money.Send notice, file eviction and then decide if you want to keep them or not otherwise you will be paying a lawyer to issue notices every month.

Of course that means you would have to be willing to boot your tenant.

@Benny Gelbendorf The roof and gutters would be around $1000 (fix top few rows of brick on chimney, replace pipe boots, split boot on electric meter mast, new gutters & downs, maybe gutter guards on some areas)The mold I do not know, I would imagine in the $1000 range, but would need an inspection from a mold expert.I am an exterior contractor and my partner is a handyman/general contractor.

I don't mind being the boots on the ground and/or also contributing capital.

They boot up quick and battery life is amazing.The upfront cost was really hard for me to overcome because most windows laptops were cheaper and had better specs but so far I'm really happy with the Macbook pro. 

My question is what will my boot be?

Boot and Reboot.If you are self managing, change that, or sell it to me.