163 a month for landscaping and snow removal?  

We have several pictures demonstrating that the condition of the foliage is clearly encroaching the unit and is clear negligence on the tenant to maintain the landscaping which resulted in the unit overheating.Lease states that the tenant is responsible maintaining the yard.

Yes if I rented it out today, after PITI, HOA and landscaping I would have $700/month (which of course some I would need to put aside for future repairs and such).

Purchase price: $55,000 Cash invested: $59,106 Lovely 2 bedroom 2 bathroom SFR with over 1700 square feet of living space and 1 car attached garage in nice neighborhood on a beatutifully landscaped corner lot.

It's exciting that you have some intimate knowledge of the rental market and the general landscape of Boston real estate.

If you use landscaping fabric under the bark, weeds won't be a problem.

Would anyone have any good contact for Landscapers in Pittsburgh? 

For instance, have you accounted for maintenance, CapEx reserves, taxes, insurance, water, trash, electric, gas and landscaping?

That gets me to my catch 22.My wife and I are hoping to get into VRBO world so we can enjoy and make more cash flow than we are currently making, but I'm wondering if we should put that off 18 months, rent out the property again and then reconvene at a better time or suck it up, lose a few thousand off the asking price and get moving on our goals...Financials - We owe 143,000 on the house (refinanced to conventional from FHA right after the seasoning period), it rents for $1850, mortgage, taxes insurance, HOA is $956, we just sunk $11,000 into carpet, paint, landscaping, replaced a vanity to get it ready to sell and I fear renting we might have to redo a couple of those things. 

As such, many people are buying these buildings, redoing the exteriors (trendy paint colors, new signage, putting on those big street numbers that seem to be all the rage, modern landscapping, maybe replacing some siding to give it an updated more modern look).Okay, so my question:  A buddy of mine asked me if I knew anyone that did this type of work.