While it may seem daunting at first, beginning with a clean slate allows you to establish clear expectations and build a strong landlord-tenant relationship from the outset.

You should be able to build an entirely new deck with concrete footing for less. 

Hello Trying to get back on the real estate investing space and build new connections that can help me to speed up the process.

The houses would be looking at I'd imagine would be about 7 to 800 k taxes would be about 4K hire a year.

Meanwhile, your expenses, like debt service, taxes, insurance, and maintenance, continue.These are the requirements necessary to attain and maintain financial independence.

Is it fair that the county can raise property taxes due to a strong market?

I also really like the idea of building a brand that you could sell.

I'm building some currently (so obviously I think that works). 

I'm trying to figure out a way to utilize a large storage building at one of my MTR listings in Memphis.

Cash flow is definitely the biggest challenge; both in terms of finding properties to buy that cash flow with a loan on them and just company wide given interest rates and labor/material is up and, at least where I'm at in Jackson County, MO, taxes are way up too.