Payed for the so called free CD/DVD stuff and all of the sudden they are charging me $40 and $98 a month for something I never signed up for.You got to watch these gurus they like to sucker people in with these free CD's,etc but in reality it's a scam to drain you of monthly charges for something you never asked or signed up for.People like that belong in jail.

@Curt Smith  nice post on the realities .. 

I don't remember the precise words, but essentially he claimed that there was some sort of standard rental agreement applicable to the area and he could not (perhaps in reality would not) add anything to it at all, which struck me as oddly questionable.

The reality is that this isn't people crashing on the couch while we're out of town anymore. 

You have to adjust your expectations to match current reality, which includes higher mortgage rates, higher prices, more expensive taxes and insurance, more competition, etc.

Kudos to you for doing something to create a secondary income stream. there are 5 income streams in RE rentals, possibly six if you do things a certain way.The reality here is your model (buy box) is suffering from too high an entry and too high a cost of capital.

The reality is the land has value.Good luck

It's not fraud or anything because you are, in fact and in reality, converting it into something that is not a bathroom and doesn't require any permits.

I feel like that sounds simple but in reality would hold up the leasing process for tenants that are not proactive. 

I kinda get it if 4 and 5 bedroom properties are going for 1.5 million in that market but... thats just math wondering what reality is?