Good point about the cosmetic repairs - they will likely have to be revisited anyway when that tenant leaves.I will look into Michigan laws regarding rent raises.  

It sounds like our team needs to revisit that initial email response to assist inquirers with making their first appointment.  

You may want to revisit the lease agreement and identify your options if the tenant refuses to pay.

we revisited the idea of students, and just tried a different type of student, and found our niche with law students.

We can all learn from each others' stories.I don't really want to revisit the bad part of that old adventure in the form of a blog, we've since moved on. 

However, after revisiting Bigger Pockets I have decided to take the remaining ten years of my career buy and hold real estate investing wherever i'm stationed.The ultimate goal is to amass a real estate portfolio over the next 10 years to have a $2-3K passive income stream.

I'm not interested in revisiting the figures of entry for the market of 2009 but will only say the estimated ARV provided by the selling company's hired appraiser who of course I paid for at settlement was in the low eighties.

May be time to revisit the PM.

It's funny, but it was the crash that made us re-visit renting to students. 

We revisited renting to students, and targeted law students (after a couple nightmare undergrads).