Cheap materials, thin walls, the LVP was peeling already not to mention the transient individuals in the parking lot. 

It's very cheap and not difficult to maintain bond/license/insurance.

The only exception I use is when the property is a high-end unit.Informative title makes your property look like a cheap business but it is still way better than common titles like cute, adorable, cozy.If you are charging over 1k per night, I think it is better to give more high-end title like Stay with 30,000 trees, tingle your inner artist with lake front retreatJust my opinion :)

I've owned student housing as far as 4.1 miles from the University of South Carolina campus.In my experience, the only reason kids would live that far away is cheap rent.

You need better contractors, because "not* putting in clean outs on a full repipe is just dumb, lazy and cheap.

I did a lot of cheap and cheerful Reno work on commercial spaces.  

@John Matthew Johnston 80% of the time, it's a thankless job:(You're never fast enough for complaining tenants, nor fast enough or cheap enough for owners.To have any chance of success, you have to be extremely organized, or every day starts with your hair on fire!

I console myself with the fact that compared to higher education that is relatively cheap tuition. 

On paper the cheap houses look great, but the reality is they are harder to manage, have higher turn over and cost a lot more time and money.Buying before you retire is a good idea because once you retire, your ability to borrow money is going to decrease as you don't have a regular income from a job.As you want to fix houses up, why not buy a house that needs a bit of work, live in it while doing the renos and then move when you sell it. 

But it is so cheap so who cares.