are you using ACTUAL expenses or random made up percentages?

I average these two numbers and use that as a baseline, adding a reasonable buffer to set the threshold.This approach helps ensure that tenants don’t feel micromanaged but also protects you from excessive utility usage.

in fact, a light / cosmetic purchase is actually the worst possible purchase. 

I fund a lot of folks that do this. its just wholesaling dirt .. nothing sinister .. some try to actually buy it others try to tie it up and assign contracts.

@Bryan Cavellier, You can 1031 with any US property including Guam, the USVI and ...drum roll- The Northern Marianas Islands (go figure but I actually had a realtor from there in a class of mine recently) into any other US or one of those territories.  1031 is a federal statute so it's applied the same in all locals with just a few variations state to state at the state level. 

Can I actually dodge CA $800 per LLC filing fee since they like to state that even if your property is out of state because you are making decisions from CA you are doing business in CA so if that is their definition of doing business in CA I am safe?

Whether you like it or not this is actual currency and by the seconds of time valued in actual US dollars with US cash dispensing ATMs etc...It has been mostly an Asian deal so far...We can speculate if the new tech is fully adopted by Americans what that could mean for the future.

Many of us actually purposefully remove them from our properties before renting them.

But its definitely one of the three issues.  500k houses should generate at least 10% of revenue all day long or you should sell the property there and buy somewhere else that gets that.I would actually guess if you're open to all areas, you can find something that hits the 12 to 14% revenue. 

We are actually doing the remodels, so we are the end buyer.