Median Price: $678,500, +6.02% Yoy.Closed Sales: 4,216, -11.89% Yoy.YTD Closed Sales: 21,325, +1.38% Yoy.12 Month Closed Sales: 38,118, -8.70 Yoy.Inventory: 6,035, +31.62% Yoy.YTD inventory: 33,454, -1.59% Yoy.New Listings: 4,349, +10.77% Yoy.YTD New Listings: 29,789, +8.16% Yoy.Months Supply: 1.8, +38.46% Yoy.Cumulative Days on Market: 29, +3.57% Yoy.Existing Home Inventory as a Percent of Households: 0.22%.

Submetering seems reasonable, as the price isn't too terrible, but then I'd have to have the property manager bill them regularly, and at the end of the day, if they do not pay it, then I am still overall responsible for paying it.

Rent and condo fees (if applicable ) are regular, insurance and property taxes are once a year, repairs are random and (hopefully) infrequent.

Make sure to have clear documentation of regular, on time rent payments and the agreement clearly laid out.

This supply constraint, coupled with steady demand, is expected to drive rent growth in the coming months.Capital Markets and Valuations: U.S. multifamily transaction volumes reached $38 billion in Q2, signaling a thaw in capital markets.

He used to be a regular contributer on the BP forums.

Plenty of areas of FL have seen record levels of new supply hit the market which has impacted rental rates, either making it flat for the past 1-2 years or even dropping some.

In a loose sense, I would call any lender a "partner" too, since they will require not only your monthly payments, and will require regular reporting as well on the operations of the property (but this is a more semantic and philosophical discussion).But, ways you can try to come up with that money: refi your home and/or investment properties.  

Rents will gradually increase as some landlords exit the market with high end condos seeing less rent increases due to excess supply from new construction.  

As far as you supplying the equipment and just having someone install it .