With a purchase price of $35,000 and a sale price of $50,000, the property promised substantial returns with minimal risk.

With a purchase price of $220,000 and a sale price of $275,000, the property promised substantial returns with minimal risk.

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Its all fine when it all works but there is no way you can have perfection of 15k deals and not have some warts and some bad ones were the players just go dark and walk away which causes the underlying lender into a foreclosure.

Might be a good idea to see if you can get equity financing on a small portion rather than the whole thing, to keep payments as minimal as possible.

He had a basic undermount stainless sink that he threw in for minimal charge.

Is it franchised or mom and pop.Your lease is meaningless if they go dark quickly.

What I see is there are many people from abroad who just want to park money here vs their home country due to inflation or some other reason who are willing to take minimal returns in exchange for principal safety. 

Things I've got down to minimal effort or fully automated: * Rent, security deposit, and fee collection* Basic accounting and tax packet creation* Listing vacancies* Lease signing* Applications, credit, and background checksThings I'm still dealing with directly ad-hoc or don't have a well defined process or solution in place for:* Requests and communication with tenants* Finding and coordinating service providers for maintenance and repair work* Scheduling showings and getting prospective tenants to make their appointments* Tenant turnover for move in and out* Keeping up with legal changes and lease template updates* Setting rent amounts* Lease enforcement - tenants are responsible for things like yardwork, routinely get letters from the city about weeds / tall grass, etc.Questions for the group:* What am I missing if I were to make out a checklist of an "automated property"?

The minimal $2,000 renovation budget presented a low-risk opportunity.