I also made friends with some various groups of residents who currently rent there, I showed them pictures of what my rehabs will look like and asked them how much they would be willing to pay, I was actually very impressed so I think I'm going to go for it and deck these units out.  

Your ability to leverage your vendor relationships and get cost-effective and quick,/reliable service will make an impression on tenants and owners alike.

I don't know what's happening at Great Jones but I'm not too impressed so far.

Hello @Macy Stevenson,Geo-spatial Intelligence in the Air Force sounds quite impressive!

I stumbled on to Bigger Pockets recently and have been very impressed with the information and resources on this site.

Tenants always have the capacity to impress us with a good deed or good maintenance or maybe just not being complainers- You thank them by renewing their lease, not giving them a rent reduction.As the CPI demonstrates- every year that we do not increase our rents we are effectively giving our tenants a rent reduction, to the point that your unit is operating at a loss.

But I left 12 months later with an entire business now running well with great local staff I had met on the streets and with a million dollars capital I had made in that year.This is going to sound insulting which is not my intention but my overall impression of most US people trying to make a go of this business is that they were fundamentally lazy.

I get the impression we did something wrong based on your comment.

(I am not affiliated with this podcast, but really impressed with the quality of their podcast and the info they are putting out there).  

@Kaitlyn PrattWhen you say the HOA seems reasonable, what have you observed that gives you that impression?