Unless your bank accounts are really FAT, this is not the time to being a 3 year self-study course, especially if you have a family.REI takes T I M E to develop and you're going to need a means to pay the bills while you acquire the new skills. 

I like a nice fat border of mulch or rock, with drought-resistant plants.

If it's fat and busting buttons, I have a big smile :DI keep it relatively simple.

Go to open houses or send them notes that you could take the vacancy headache out of their hands.Do you have everything lined up to pounce fat when you hear about something?  

Fat number.I have seen people drive 10 miles to get 20 cents off a gallon of gas but get home to a huge For Sale sign on their yard for which they are paying 6% commission (or 20% of their equity to a Realtor).BP members are here to make money and if that means making a little effort to sell a property on their own ... just list it with a Flat Fee MLS listing company ... 

I'm looking forward to how much fun it will be to see the fruits of my labor: i.e. newly renovated homes for great people to buy and enjoy, and fat checks with my (or my company's) name on them lol!

McCain probably shouldn't have called him a fat baby.  

Please over look the typos - Put the blame on my fat finger syndrome : ))))

Wondering if any experienced landlords/ property managers out there have figured out how to "trim the fat" off their rental property expenses & or time allotted to them?

This is only my opinion, but even with going a little over budget and into my contingency funds, my answer to that GC would be a big, fat NO.