maintenance items can be expended.  

Luxury Yacht (with decent expendable income) who owns a 3 year old SFH he rents out at market rate in a class B area to stable renters may make a different decision on what to do with monthly cash inflow than Just starting out on a shoestring and a prayer blue coller worker who owns a 70 year old class C that is overdue for a rehab.That is based on personal ability to meet costs when they come due and the probability that costs will come due.That being said, it's always intelligent to budget for CAPEX using real life numbers vs IRS or guesstimate numbers.You also need money for turns, which includes carrying costs when unoccupied and etc...As well as unexpected costs, such as roof damage, or early appliance failure--such as a refrigerator.Good Luck!

me wife and I are starting the process to sell our single family and use the proceeds from that to put down on a multi family home , move in and repeat the process we are currently meriden andwe currently rent out a condo in meriden also. we are just looking to expend and own more units.

Just hoping to have the ability to invest even more with the increase in expendable income. 

I am a get rich slow type of guy and dont gamble unless it's expendable money.

Why would they expend the effort of getting one and having applicant sign all necessary docs if they aren't getting paid?

For labor, DO NOT pay for labor unless or until labor is expended and shows up on your job site in the form of completed work, but expect to pay for this on a weekly basis as work is "delivered". 

Looking to expend my network and I'm very interested in Real Estate Investments, flipping etc.Lets connect.Have an amazing day!

In times of economic stress, everyone else is expendable.

As rents go up over time, my investments only getting better and my expendable cash flow increases.