Landscaping, painting the outside are maintenance things and should be done when needed. for the second part of your question, if a tenant rented the place, to add a garage and take away some of their space (parking, adding a neighbour) changed the nature of the property.

Maybe buy a single family home in a residential neighbour hood and build a suite in the basement then rent rooms.

So far my marketing has been limited to driving around and then knocking on people's doors to ask if they want to sell, and also to find out about the neighbours, and what is happening in the neighbourhood.However, at a recent networking event, I came across an interesting opportunity.

Have you talked with your potential neighbour?  

Hello,I need some advice please on what my options are to do deal with noisy neighbors.My property was used as a long term rental and I have recently converted it to a STR. I've pulled out all the stops and the house,...

My experience in countries and cities that depend heavily on tourism has been excellent (Mexico, Greece, Thailand, New Orleans, Galveston). my visits to places less dependent on tourism have been more mixed.

So you'd be looking at high potential rental income, cheap properties or, even better a combination of the two.That prime candidates would be:Mexico and the Dominican Republic: cheap properties, mass tourism, occupancy all year long, closeness to North America, direct flights from North America, the US and increasingly Asia, strong international and domestic tourism and tourists coming from diverse locations.Southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece): properties aren't necessarily that cheap (some are) but you have mass tourism there as well.Then you have secondary markets like Colombia or Brazil.

I am a Canadian investor but I’m asking this question for my sister who lives and owns a farm in Ocala Florida.My sister’s neighbour is selling her farm and I am trying to show my sisters options on how to buy the farm.

I'm just a few hours away from Cleveland.I've never lived in LA, but I have lived in Greece, which has a similar climate to southern California.

If I ink out a deal with the neighbour to buy her house at $100,000.00 and FMV is presently $105,000.0, then right off the bat, I'm in the money $5K (though I probably paid for that in the price of the option).The time value is more complicated and, in the worlds of commodity futures and stock options factors in the volatility of the market and the length of the option period.