Owners were charged an assessment (several thousand dollars) in 2023 to put into reserves, as per the new rules after the Surfside collapse.

Who here has 50 to 100 properties or more, and has built a net worth of over a million dollars in real estate and is still building? 

If none of these factors work and your crunching numbers to the final dollar... it may not be a deal worth buying in the first place.  

@Hector Haro there's no helping someone who pinches pennies while losing dollars.

As it was mentioned before, fixing the celling should be a few hundred dollars.

A 3% appreciation on a $1M asset is a bigger dollar amount than on a $100K property out of state.

If you don't want to put a single dollar down then you can just structure a 100% financing with the seller

Access to these,  I do not believe requires a license, but it is in the thousands of dollars for access at the level you need.

Just wanted some Input as to where would my Marketing Dollars be best spent?

As a savings of a few thousand dollars on furniture, could determine if your occupancy rate is 65% versus 70%...If the revenue is $50,000/yr that's $2,500 in one year (which could be the breakeven for that specific line-item expense).To determine you total breakeven point occupancy rate, and not just related to the furniture, take your operating expenses plus your debt service and divide it by your effective gross income.