Find a military friendly realtor for lower commission fees if possible.  4.  

Otherwise, if you're assuming third party management, then maintenance is either baked into their fee or charged hourly like a vendor. 

You should be able to get rid of that sign up fee of 3k and have only the monthly charge.

I break even, but i actually lose money on management fees. if I managed it myself I wouldn't be losing money., Lessons learned?

Instead, he seems focused on discouraging me from setting up an LLC due to the fees associated with California.

We have the option to to get you funded up to 75% and at 50% less origination fees, I would need to know your fico, and rental list.

I can pursue a legal action against the tenant or Baselane, but this will cost me additional $2-3K in legal fees besides dealing with a loss of at least $5K of rent and damages caused.

Our fees are not based on the profit or value of the project. 

Hypothetically, you'd need >2K rent on a 250K home to get more than 5% CoC (ballpark numbers with a few assumptions, mgmt fees, putting 30% down, etc), and it seems very unlikely this would exist where I'm looking..

Are they flat fees or percentages?