My Dad buys all cash, essentially self insures, and flies under the radar, so not an issue for him, though not the business model I personally prefer as mentioned.

And I certainly agree with turnkeys < 40k as being an unviable investment model.   

I have a successful IT consulting business that has and will hopefully continue to allow me to purchase rental properties with after tax money.With all that being said, I understand the model is about  purchasing properties, refinancing, and going back to purchasing more properties.  

Hi,I am researching this business niche also, very interesting discussion...I see co-working is new business model so never went through recession cycle, not sure how it will go in next recession...I can see downtown in major metro doing excellent right now, not sure about small metro and suburb area.How about Regus model (Office space renting only)?

It's important to do modeling and run sensitivity analysis to stress test your assumptions.  

Each manufacture has a few models specific for kitchen use.  

Hi all,One of my rentals has an old tank heater which I am looking to replace with a tankless model as its quite a small place.

Every landlord I work with absolutely loves my business model and none want anything to do with my day-to-day operation.  

You will see they are investing in the strongest markets, have great broker networks / access to deals which is critical in a highly competitive market, can raise significant capital to take advantage of scale, more disciplined / conservative underwriting models, have simple well thought out business plans to increase the properties value, using fixed rate 10yr loans to take advantage of still incredibly low rates historically speaking and use more sophisticated tool sets to help understand how fluctuations in occupancy, rents, etc may impact their models.  

For the record it looks to be a late 80's model Catalina 22 sail boat.