While some Indian schools are now some of the best in the world (from what I have heard/seen), for many years well-off Indian families would routinely send their kids around the world to good schools; in my experience, those students excelled far beyond the typical American college graduate.Again, no proof of causation and just empirical evidence, but it's all I have

Hi Tracy,Have you thought about getting a "Good" maintenance man to do all of the routine maintenance?

However, if you are going to be in the rental business very long you will have to develop the ability to look people in the face and say uncomfortable things like "you haven't ever paid any other landlord in your life.

I was under the impression this was a routine practice and had been occurring for a while.

That notice would have been a 5 day remedy or quit, it would have detailed the lease violations, which beyond quite enjoyment, would have detailed his refusal to let your landscaper perform routine maintenance and his behavior that required the police to be called.

Rather it assumes you'll have some nominal vacancy like a couple of weeks or a month for a turn over, a nominal amount of routine maintenance (which is mostly caused by tenants, not the property, so being rehabbed doesn't translate into no maintenance), property management (which you can earn back if you do it yourself, but which you will earn), etc.

Claudia, sometimes the tenant isnt home when the repair is done so I do not routinely get signatures that work was done but I do try to keep a log of all their requests per tenant in my rental management software; if i think i should get a signature i will but i usually do not.

Eliminate anything you're uncomfortable with.

You drive around and have a look and weed out the ones where you're uncomfortable.

If you want to do creative REI, are you willing to do the hard things that are uncomfortable for many people to do, namely force yourself to meet a lot of people, take a lot of phone calls and make a lot of phone calls to folks you don't know at all or very well?