Also, appliances will need to be cleaned more frequently and ducts too. The

Trucking is a cost to consider too... the further away from the plant, the higher the transportation cost.5) As noted in #3, lumber is a low margin commodity... takeoffs take a lot of time and there is little reward for a rep.  

That's a health and safety issue.

The rehab project has been somewhat started but can no longer be completed due to health issues.

If the unit is messy/dirty to the extend of being damaging or a health hazard, our lease also gives us the right to send-in a cleaning service at the tenants expense.Your biggest concern as a landlord will be vacancy - both physical and economic - as vacancy is foregone revenue.  

To your health and the winner's wealth.

Does anyone have tips/resources on navigating this scenario; finding a good broker, questions to ask, key analysis to run to compare properties and gauging local economic health?

After getting married and adopting a newborn baby, I recognized the need for the health and life insurance benefits of a full-time position and hired on with Tandem Computers in 1992 making a six-figure salary.

Now we're trying to "stop the bleeding"; then, we'll have to make up a lot of lost ground.In the meantime, we've both got chronic health conditions, so it's not just our ages.  

How do you feel about the fiscal health of Illinois?