I know there's a lot of debate between boilers vs furnaces as well.  

Erin, personally, I think your question is going to start debate that will runs for 50 pages or more but 99% of the debate will have no relevance to really answering your question.

No debate there.Then you mention "gouging," which generally refers to taking advantage of a supply/demand imbalance to essentially coerce someone into paying more than what's considered fair. 

Hi All,I am debating to invest in multi-family home between Fresno, CA and Las Vegas, NV.  

At no time in the debate to allow this fee has anyone from the property management industry and their trade group, Community Association Institute (CAI), offered evidence of what these unreimbursed expenses were to warrant any fee let alone fees averaging $350+.

After much debate, we decided to go with Allure vinyl planks throughout the entire house (except for tile at the entry and one bath).

Plusses and minuses for investing purposes, which are debated many places on BP.Future oriented recommendation: After you get your license and get to the point of needing continuing education credits each year, I recommend doing an online Bing/Google search for online real estate broker continuing education credit courses, and you'll find a bunch. 

Tanikka Myers To sum up everything I've learned in the past 6 months trying to convert a buy-and-hold portfolio from personal name (financed conventionally) to LLC: There's no real point to having the LLC so long as I want to keep my really attractive financing.I realize this is a favorite topic to argue about, and not interested in debating the point.

I am debating if I want to answer phones or have them go directly to vm.

I have been debating in my mind if purchasing the two sister's shares in the entity that owns the property would be better than purchasing the real estate directly.