I have had good property managers but a majority of them have been bad which is why I now manage everything myself.

With our town and maybe yours, any major alterations (work over 50% of the property) will require updating sewage and plumbing to the main line <- this is quite expensive and luckily we didn’t need to do this.

A tenant of mine is refusing contractor to come in for major repair, although I notified her a week in advance.

I think the vast majority of us who don't ski or snowmobile stay as far away from NH as possible though in Winter!

In general, the major brokerages are somewhat greedy and they would prefer to keep both sides of the commission "in house", so before any new listing is posted to a site like LoopNet, Costar or Crexi, it is passed internally to every other broker in the office and then within the intranet for that company, to see if anyone has a party to do the deal with.

I’ve been doing a ton of research on it as I’ve been looking at Italy myself so I have been focused on the less densely populated but still very popular travel spots like Tuscany outside of Florence and Sicily though I’m nervous about Sicily and their major drought issues.

Question is, which majors would be most useful?

Although dumpster use, animal destruction and random cars is a reason and we also put it in the lease that there are cameras. 

Hi Randal, one of the problems are the loans, when investing in Spain 20% DP is required at the very least.2nd The majority of the Spanish houses are condos so they all carry HOA fees.3rd Demand is an issue, Spain is losing population due to the crazy high unemployment rate, young people are getting out for better opportunities.

Military housing is at high occupancy on-post, making various home displacements more common off-post in hotels or short term rental homes.Small multi-family homes vary in neighborhood types, but the majority of them (but not all) are in a low to middle class area, raising the chances of getting unappreciative or undesirable tenants.As I mentioned earlier, I have no properties and only watch the market for now.