Of course if you use turnkey your return is lower but you get basically a brand new house and spend less time.

They see median home prices running $600K or so, and those are influenced by all these cool developers ripping out the old and put up brand new crazy-gorgeous glamorous homes -- literally million dollar homes in some cases.There are several houses in that area, very similar, same everything, that have been fixed up (in their current size and floor plan configuration) and flipped for around $285K or so. 

I think most would agree that using an email address + bank is a reasonable expectation for pretty much any transaction in 2018, much less one with such a high value.I suggest that you should seriously consider either forcing the tenant to adapt to your online management (given that you aren't asking doing anything unreasonable with the rest of your tenants which I presume you aren't) or increase their rent as you see fit to pay for whatever inconveniences you're taking on to accommodate the tenant.You may have inherited the tenant in this "state", but unless some agreement was written into the lease prior, I personally wouldn't see that to be enough reason for you to go through so much trouble.With that being said, I believe 100% in going above and beyond for my tenants and if you feel that this is makes sense for maintaining the brand of your landlord business, I say go for it and good luck!

In fact, due to the lack of parking in NYC, people who rent his garages own brand new cars, by don't commute to work in it, they all take the subway.

Brand new to this REI as I have only 1 unit.

Bought the house brand new in 15 with the intent to live but moved.

I mean I am an accidential builder.. having foreclosed on builders in the crash and having to finish the projects... so I have some very special education you only get when it happens to you and you have to figure it out.. was not pleasant. and it cost million or so.. but I got out.. and then I realized Hey since as the lender I am taking all the risk I mine as well just do this myself.so here we are about 150 plus new builds later and things are pretty good.Now to be fair my rock star in Charleston build a home last year then calls me and says OOPS house is 1 foot to low we have to raise it.. that's a brand new 700k home that has to be raised a foot.. cost 30k..

There's a couple of reasons, but the big ones are that most seem to be brand new with unrealistic expectations for what they're getting into or they're old-timers still looking for grand slams when singles and doubles are all the exist anymore.

Like, brand spankin baby new!!! 

For example, even if the carpets or flooring were brand new when they moved in, and they're now completely trashed, you've had more than a full lifetime out of them.