If amount they need your approval for is not specified already in contract, send them your pictures of how you left the house (hopefully you took extensive photos before turning it over to them, like under every sink cabinet, every bathtub etc) and ask them to have the cleaning service modify the bill as it must be a mistake, then have a frank conversation about expected maintenance costs, hourly charges and amount they need to call you first before ok’ing on your behalf.

There’s a large apartment (a few hundred units) being expanded 3 blocks away.

@Bob WaliaI'm a fellow Canuck who's been investing in STRs in Mexico and the Riviera Maya for a few years now and have responded to hundreds of posts on the topic.

We have bought hundreds of properties at auctions almost always without an appraisal, relying on our own judgement as to the value.

I truly do not know if we could rent the house for more that $1,600/month in Winnemucca NV, so we would either just cut even or maybe even have to pay a couple hundred to the mortgage to keep this house and have renters move in paying most of the mortgage.

What you can deduct are things like wiring, plumbing, window treatments, cabinets, windows, etc.

So if you're looking to get into multifamily, I would try to identify the people in your area who owns hundreds of units and provide them value in the form of property management, joining their brokerage and bringing them commissions, walking properties for them, starting a meetup to increase their brand.

Would you pay for a subscription model say $1000 a month where you got access to knowledgeable investor agent who had zero stake on if the transaction closed but provided you with local knowledge, strategies, ran comps, looked over deals, even looked over home inspection reports, talked in the phone, basically a consultant (you could possibly tack on services like writing offers or seeing a property in person) my thought is if you buy a property relatively quickly, it’s much cheaper than paying 2.5% even if you end up paying for the service for a few month’s and realize it’s not a good time for you to buy you are only out a few thousand dollars as opposed to hundreds of thousands of dollars, this would basically take the agent’s need to sell you a home out the process, presumably there motivation would be to keep you subscripted for as long as possible but you could easily just cancel and if you were interested in buying later resubscribe than.

Do not stress, and please make sure you have someone from your team that will not say the sky is falling, and charge you 5k when the material will be less than a few hundred , unless needs full room carpeted.  

@William CoetJust add it in as one of the items.Not sure where this is located but in many locations solar is a secondary use (means can have solar after has another use)Also most solar companies looking for land do not get out of bed for less than several hundreds of acres.