The only special tools you need are a $17 cutter and a $65 wrench.

It's much more likely that the place has been patched up and rigged six weeks from Tuesday to get it on the market and once you have a tenant in there all kinds of expensive stuff will start to go wrong from Month 1.I'm a self-managing DIY landlord with C/D rentals in a Rust Belt city running a small mom and pop operation. 

Most people can't afford anything better than a ho-hum subdivision cookie cutter house.

He said the biggest problem he had was the steadicam operators putting on too much weight, since they were used to much heavier rigs.

I haven't had any bad experiences with split-levels, but I do think they're very cookie-cutter and lack character.

Managing a lawn crew is a heck of a lot easier than managing a robo cutter. 

I still have an asbestos siding cutter and have done repairs on it .

That is why no "Cookie Cutter" plan will work for you.

I think spending $300k on a rental in a cookie cutter suburb with average to below average schools like Elk Grove or Natomas is crazy.

Cookie cutter real estate documents get you cookie cutter results.