Real estate agents tend to want to make a sale and they are not as experienced with the rental market as they are the sales market.

General tax preparers tend to get less complicated returns and some are quite good with these returns doing much more than data entry.Not all CPAs get it right and they can become guilty of simply entering data without reviewing, analyzing or clarifying situations especially in a long hectic tax season.

Those tend to be the neighborhoods that are gentrifying.Unique stuff to Pittsburgh I would say is don't go based on zip codes since one zip code can be composed of multiple different areas/neighborhoods.

I work mostly with bank & credit unions lenders, who tend to be much more conservative, and most of them use a 35% operating expense margin.Also, the operating expense is calculated off the EGI (Effective Gross Income), which is the Gross Rent x the Occupancy Rate (i.e.

These areas tend to have more affordable properties compared to central Phoenix and still offer strong rental demand and appreciation potential.

Usually this is from poor drainage and accumulation of the water that tends to be absorbed by the soild near the foundation.

What currently happens in my NW Austin neighborhood is older owners tend to sell their homes as is, often in need of serious remodeling. 

I did a little work for this company as a neighbor and the company has failed to pay me $10,000 that was due last November.

We tend to push rents $50 until we see the traffic on our listings drop.

:-) From a property managers perspective, I also think its great that you've decided to take on out of state self management for very legitimate reasons...Nothing is void of a few challenges, as we can all attest to, so as you embark, I wanted to share a few top reasons our owners choose to hire a management company. - As @Jonathan Klemm mentioned, passing on this load so that you can be more present and attentive to your family and not be essentially working  24/7, on-call for the needs of tenants and property emergencies... can be worth the management fees.