The Berkshire summer weight comforters are also great.

Local Economic Indicators: Monitor local employment rates, population growth, and housing inventory to time your deals correctly.

Plumber went in one day and reported back there was a guy there with ankle monitor playing video games all day.  

One lender hit one of my clients that I was doing a JV with... for 800 dollar property tax monitoring fee.. really on a 12 month loan.. but what happens is borrowers just focus on the points with no clue to the junk fee's  or using brokers who add fee's and points on top of the actual lenders fee's again bait and switch.

Who monitors financials?

Monitor market trends, rent demand, and connect with local resources.

Sure, it will take a few days but worth its weight in gold. 

Also appreciate the monitoring advice concerning security deposits.

I know a vacancy is tough and it can be hard to find tenants in the winter, but you have to weight the costs and benefits and decide.If it's harder to find renters in the winter, try offering a month-to-month lease just to get through the winter, then move back to a one-year lease in the spring.

We recently purchased a 6 unit complex that was full and had "good paying tenants."  Unfortunately we have discovered that the guests of a couple of tenants were not being upstanding citizens and got themselves in tro...