The point of this story is to demonstrate how real estate lending is relationship based and its worth spending more time, effort and perhaps accrue interest expenses early on, even if you don't necessarily need the financing because formulating these relationships are extremely helpful as you grow.

There's a wealth of information in there that has been extremely helpful so far. 

It has been in an extremely frustrating two weeks. 

The east side is enticing from a pricing perspective but it is extremely rough.I would also highly recommend adding Detroit to your list of potential markets.

What I mean is that properties with extremely high cash flow on paper will TEND to have more costly capex issues, more maintenance issues, and higher rates of turnover and delinquency.

I'm a featured agent and have been extremely busy for almost 1.5 years. 

Plus, even in that extreme circumstance, by fixing things timely it prevents additional damage and completes repairs BEFORE the unit is vacant making it faster to be rent ready for the next tenant. 7.

More importantly, the user interface is easy to use and the support is extremely helpful and great.

This is extremely worrisome as there hasn't been anything on our end that changed, and this means that there is a shift in market conditions.

@Albert Johnson I recently did an “upgrade” ($10,000ish) for an extremely vocal tenant.