You can do the same on a different street and get $1200 or less and maybe have a hard time renting it.

The landowner will have a great negotiating position when you have built and maintained a rental property and are desperate to renew your lease or purchase.

I didn’t like the expense involved when I researched cost of maintaining a business account to self manage 1 rental and found that the LLC route wasn’t necessary if we maintained an umbrella policy, so I just keep track of rental income and expenses (not that hard) on the one I self manage and any extra expenses on the ones managed by property management to add to their annual summary for my accountant.

I m an agent who works with New Western and I would like to offer you an explanation, first we are the ONLY reliable wholesale market supplier who will show you everything at front, we offer a package ,this property package which is btw free ,has ALL the information for you to make an informed decision, but we are not an education center provider, second we didn’t keep your money and disappeared we helped you to get a deal maybe not a good one for you , that’s why is always good to either be a realtor contractor hard money lender otherwise you will ALWAYS be spending extra money on those people, we deal with savvy buyers and few times will deal with first timers and the reason we don’t deal much with unexperienced is because first timers need time and they are quite slow and our houses are gone normally in a couple of days if not hours now we SELL A PROPERTY every 13 minutes if we are that bad ask the another thousands of investors who uses us some monthly and we ALWAYS recommend to buy with a general contractor opinion or due diligence is on our contract.Reading your story is just a sad victimization of a poor decision and again we never advertise for the best deals just a deal if you don’t want it let it go and look for another one next day or so ,what for you was terrible for an experienced person not at all , there is always exit strategies BRRR DSCR buy and hold etc  one thing for sure you never loose in real estate maybe you make less and it’s fine onto the next ! 

For a tenant, a shorter grace period could cause stress associated with late payments, whereas, for landlords, a 5-day grace period could reduce stress, simplifying management but potentially reducing flexibility in handling late payments.While I see significant benefits for tenants regarding stability and protection, the proposal also challenges landlords, particularly in maintaining profitability and managing market-driven rent adjustments. 

Unlike some people, I believe HOA is good costodian often finances, get volume discounts, do the effort of hiring contractors and maintain common space so in that regard I consider them a value. 

I am thinking if there is any online property management that does showings and responds to any maintainence requests?

In my experience with distressed tenants, their housing costs are always their first priority, and one in which they have the most pride in maintaining.

I'm not familiar with Clusia...is it really hard to maintain/trim?

Market and economy added value while I maintained the residence to high standards.