As the saying goes... even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. 

Frickin squirrels cost me thousands on that property and trust me "squirrel repair" was NOT a line on the pro-forma!

Squirrel a lot of that money away in those 5-10 years that you're talking about.

We have squirrels raising a ruckus in the attic and walls of one of my Desoto properties. 

Actually, with a squirrel tenant I’d rather have them on a month to month so you Can cancel with 30 days notice.

And now I have a squirrel in the attic.

We're not in trouble on it but that was an unplanned for expense.

We should be able to squirrel away roughly $4k a month during our stay with family so we should be able to get enough cash together quickly.I'm really looking in the area along the 295 corridor from anywhere north of Rt. 42 up to Mt.

I did find that electricity jumped for a couple weeks especially as I had crews in the place all day, and an agent advised me of the FHA rule after I was into the project by 21 days.Essentially it was the little stuff I hadn't planned on - this was a condo and a "resale certificate" is necessary... another few hundred unplanned, mandatory "dryer vent cleaning" (albeit I cannot fine this anywhere in the rules/regs of the association, its just cheaper to do it rather than fight it), cabinet pulls (after replacing counter tops, faucets and fixtures)... all in I came up with another $1400 of unplanned expense, eating up roughly 50% of my contingency budget!

SQUIRREL!!!