Hi there, as someone who currently works in the real estate field as an asset manager overseeing the work of a multi-family property and an external property management company, I do not recommend using your maintenance/construction person as the person who is also the property manager.

If your local jurisdiction allows it, I think it is a great business model.Denver, for example, doesn't allow you to add external stairs to a basement.  

Real Estate investing is definitely worth it to me, regardless of income, children, or external situations.

@Joe Splitrock and @Zack ThiesenFire.The local requirements to get a C of A are pretty standardized across the greater city: third-party electrical inspection, carbon monoxide detectors on every floor, smoke detectors in every room, GFCI outlets in bathrooms and kitchens, shielded external outlets, fire extinguisher in the kitchen.

No professional business person would voluntarily devalue their investment when there is no external business pressure to do so.If a landlord is not charging market rent and is not giving annual rent increases to insure their increased expenses are being covered by the tenant then they are not a professional landlord.Call them amateur, hobby or what ever you choose but they are not a professional landlord if they choose to supplement a tenants rent for what ever reason they may choose to justify their decisions. 

Many tenant favored provinces (or area with harsher rent control laws) will have the ability for the tenant to continue on a month to month basis even without a lease at the same rental rates.

Another 25% goes toward "the processing of vandalism cases and related external security costs and measures".  

Yours is an apartment (perhaps more single renters) so I thought harsher weather may not be an issue.

I’d like to start our conversation by having an external validation of your identity that will also serve as meeting some of the initial criteria for applicants.

"Consistent with the model, we find that even when universities price-discriminate, a credit expansion will raise tuition paid by all students and not only by those at the federal loan caps because of pecuniary demand externalities.