Zillow's recommendations, just like the Zestimate, aren't perfect, but they can be a good starting point for consumers, particularly in markets like ours where buyers are typically not local or otherwise are relocating to the area.

For the past few years I’ve been periodically posting about complex, somewhat hard to implement, and time consuming strategies and tactics that I’ve used and can be used to “accelerate” wealth building in real estate.  

 $1800 (high end of rent range) - $1535 (hopefully mortgage includes full PITI) - $90 (5% vacancy) - $400 maintenance/cap ex - $180 PM (at that low rent point I am using 10% all inclusive) - $50 misc (bookkeeping, utilities that are not tenant responsibility such as slab leak, tax man, allocation of asset protection, etc).  

Most service providers are consumer focused and only report on-time payments (e.g.

A well written management contract should clearly spell out what is expected of both the PMC and the owner, to PROTECT both and avoid misunderstandings.

Does an LLC not offer that protection?

New York recently passed the “Good Cause Eviction” which protects tenants from eviction without legitimate reason.

When my tenant moves out, I'm just going to eat the cost and put in the flooring I've put in my last few rentals that went in very well, look great, and, so far, no issues; the Pergo Wet Protect from Lowes.  

I had it prior but had to make a career choice about 5 years ago when I was working for a dealership because it was too time consuming to keep it open. 

It goes deeper than that.NYC Liberal policies, including strong tenant protections, increases the risk of failure so much that the risk far outweighs the rewards.Financial ruin is just around the corner for the small Mom and Pop Property Investor that it doesn't make sense for them.The Tenants will have free Attorneys that are bent on delaying eviction cases so long that it stretches into years while Mom and Pop suffer from lack of rental income and still have to pay all the bills and do the management.Additionally, the increase in homeless living rough in the streets due to Sanctuary laws causing a lack of shelter beds, then evicting shelter residents after 30 days creating more homelessness, policies that tie up the Police's ability to arrest perpetrators, etc. only causes Mom and Pop to sell out at large discounts to larger Landlords who are capable to use Economies of Scale to eek out a profit.These larger Landlords will eventually turn a much higher profit as the pendulum will eventually swing towards the middle when the NYC Voting population eventually realizes that it's not a conspiracy of the Rich that's causing the Wealth Gap to increase.It's the same liberal laws that encourage people to become lifelong tenants, small Entrepreneurs (including Property Owners and small Mom and Pop Businesses) to be destroyed, and Rents to rise astronomically as housing becomes scarer even when the population declines by as much as 7% in the last several years.