Thanks, I agree.....My parents lost a vacation home through a short sale and my dad had to be an accidental landlord/handyman when my grandparents wanted to rent out their previous home to live in a new house.

Daniel Barnett Accidental landlord when I got married.

As a former bank regulator for more than 7 years, I can tell you that if regulators have already identified a risk, discussed it internally, then produced a formally issued document and press release that they were in agreement on internally, the issue has usually already been around for a while, and is probably past where it should be!!!

Hi, I started my journey with becoming an accidental landlord.

Problem is, outside of vague mentions of Real Estate and other vehicles, it doesn't really delve into other investment options.I'm putting 8% into a 401k through my 9-5 (100% up to 4%, 50% from 5-8%), and I'm an accidental landlord (thin cash flow at the moment).

Most of the property meets you find in industry press or online from searches do have some element of sales pitch.

I know that whatever happens i must learn from the mistake and press on.

About me...I'm an accidental landlord but am now ready to buy more properties.

You need to begin formulating what really is the advantage of an amount of work, because just the work won't be enough, there has to be a savings to the contractor such as less time spent wasted chasing bids he won't get, things like that, you need to actually save this contractor real money to see a discount, volume is really not going to do it, and I can't stress enough promises of volume are worth even less.Then there is the issue of timing, you're an investor so you're going to be always pressing for right now, any contractor worth a damn is always busy but I'm guessing you're probably going to figure that your 'volume' is going to also mean the contractor should respect your authoratay and be ready to jump when you have the next one.

Maybe WF is tired of the negative press over the last few years.