After you place your first tenant, find ways that you can tweak your tenant screening process to make it better and more efficient.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I TEST and test and collect data and modify and tweak my systems to adapt to the test results.

@Austin Culp Zillow has a decent basic rental income/expense spreadsheet you can download for free - I've tweaked it over the years to suit me.

We haven't had to tweak it.

And I feel the ideal portfolio can benefit from the diversification of both.Directly owned properties are great because they give you maximum control and the ability to tweak them exactly how you want.

You can spend a lot more money and get some really poor results if you're trying to do it on your own.We have spent a lot of money tweaking keywords, ads, landing pages and are left with a really well-oiled machine that can be duplicated in any city across the country.If you're interested and want to PM me I would be more than happy to chat and let you know what you should be looking for when searching for a partner.

I will be tweaking new leases to include automatic percentage increase as I thought that was a great idea I saw in someone's post awhile back.Thank you BP colleagues!

These figures are ballparks for our areas, and you'd of course need to tweak the #s to fit your market(s).

Everything from gut remodels to light "fresh up'' where you paint and do easy things like light fixtures, drawer pulls, etc (isn't crazy how different a place can look with a few tweaks?)

I would tweak this in any way that people say that I should.