You could still get cheap stuff and cheap labor, and rents while low still resulted in about a 25% return.

This means you get exactly the functionality that you need for your real estate business without a bunch of other stuff that just bogs you down and isn't helpful.

They do a lot of stuff right, but it seems like everything has little aggravations that make doing something harder than it should be, different than I want to do it, or impossible.

Some spots in dayton you will see stuff like that which is why I always tell my clients beforehand what they can expect. 

. ;-)  BP has changed, Mike Hern is happy doing his thing and BP carries on.well Bob not sure why you would go to all the trouble to post old stuff of mine.. since there is 60,000 of them..

There are lots of other risks people take when they don't do enough research and miss important stuff before going to the tax sale. 

Of course you can be passive and buy performing stuff and get nice returns but when people are having courses that show you how to make a few hundred grand a year in notes people get all excited and rush to the well only to realize it’s dry and you need to work to fill it. 

The shower curtain because sometimes renters don't have one when they move in and they want to take a shower after moving their stuff in and flood the floor until they get a shower curtain.

Great stuff everyone!

This still makes me uncomfortable because the apartment will have stuff from Tenant B inside before Tenant B's lease starts, but with Tenant A's lease going until the end of the month (and them having paid for it), I'm not sure what to do about it.