This allows for the property to set vacant for 4 months or more without the partners reaching into their pockets.This also sets the stage for the partners to understand that the investment will pay dividends.

Hello All, We are in the very early stage of developing a 'Tenant Satifaaction Survey' to use in our rental home business, and looking for ideas or samples of what should, or shouldn't, be in it, and general feedback on your experiences for those of you who have done this.

Now that I am thinking of it, if they just discovered that a shower can't be placed there, then he is still in the rough inspection stage? 

I prefer to expect to renovate the entire house, with a wise selection of improvements, finishes, and staging, and make a projection based on that.

I'm still at the analysis stage of buying my first owner-occupied multifamily and have recently come close to putting and offer down.  

The property was in primo condition and was staged with nice new fashionable stuff by a professional stager.1.

How high you can go up on such a small size parcel can make a big difference in returns.If the buildings are old the procedure to tear them down could get expensive.Also tenants on current leases the disruption to their businesses would likely need to do in stages more (start and stopping) with development and meanwhile labor and material costs can go up.

The unit is a two stage XL80 Trane gas furnace. 

You really want to focus in the early stages on the cash on cash return.

The property management companies knowing you are states away can be lazy and let things fall through the cracks.One strategy is to buy a nicer new house stage zero of development in a subdivision with mainly homeowners and rent it out to tenants.