If its just one spot a plumber can dig it up and repair it for a grand.

In California, where I live, Appreciation rates have been well over double digits and had been as high as 20% for 2 years straight at one point, which is obviously much better than the national average of 3.9%.

I believe that if given the right tools tenants can be a power tool to helping identify and stop problems before they become big issues.To help make this a bit more forum friendly, I will adapt my questions a bit, but here is what I am curious about 2 different areas: Digital Move-inWhen tenants move in and submit damage reports for their rooms, do they do it digitally?

All managed through digital photos, text messages, phone calls, and emails by a guy with no renovation experience, again from 1000 miles away.

At that time, it will need to be looked at long and hard to determine the path forward.I work in the field that has been my passion and hobby since I reached the double digits in age, so it helps that I like going to work.

Is Donald Trump a scumbag because he is a Billionaire and only pays a single digit tax rate?

In the old days before digital mapping, computerized flood simulations, and years of rainfall data, the floodplains were not as precise.

I've grown them organically... work really hard to save extra through my digital marketing skills and kept buying the past 7 years...Now, I've been working on a 1031 exchange for one of my small condo in the sf bay area into 5-10 unit apartment else where, so hopefully I'll get beyond the 100k/year gross rent.

Inside, we have a copy of the signed lease, condition reports, city specific information, menus from local restaurants, garbage schedules, appliance manuals, if you need it as a tenant or a resident of the town it is in there.One tip, it really helps if you have Adobe Acrobat to combine all the different documents as a digital binder and then number it.

But, we can't decide for you - neither should we.If you don't mind waiting 10-15 years into the future before your original 7% deposit, and all the negative cash flow since you moved out, plus a voluntary further outlay of $9k - start to give you an actual return, rather than biting the bullet NOW, to get SOME of that cash back for re-investing SPECIFICALLY for double digit returns - which could see you back in the black quicker - then, good luck...