Working with investors is hard because they are often unreasonable in their demands of time and effort.

If you charge $10 a day and the Tenant is 20 days late, that's $200 which would be considered unreasonable by a judge and the Tenant is unlikely to pay it.

But the biggest mistake that I see new landlords make, as well as seasoned landlords, is their reluctance to file for eviction (that Notice to Quit for Non Payment of Rent) IMMEDIATELY and on the very first day rent is late.When I ask them why that is they tell me that they feel it is unreasonable.

I don’t think that’s an unreasonable timeframe.

In those situations, I'm comfortable paying for the entire job, assuming the numbers are reasonable and I know I'm not being unreasonably overcharged for materials (and as a previous property adjuster, I have a general sense of how much these things cost).

By notifying them now you do two even more important things 1) establish that they knew there was an ongoing issue and it was incurring unreasonable costs you can't otherwise avoid (financially damaging you) 2) demonstrated that you tried resolving the issue directly with them before needing to fix it yourself to minimize your damages (if it gets to that).

One more thing, if you have an absence of competition in your market for property mgt services due to it being a rural market, it would be unreasonable to expect to pay PM fees that are comparable to a metropolitan area.

Yeah, the delay is on you and $500 is not unreasonable for 8 days.

It's unreasonable to expect the GPs to significantly come out of pocket on the front end of deals as there are plenty of expenses involved in acquisitions, due diligence, asset management etc.

Legal fees of $20,000 wouldn’t be unreasonable, forced placed insurance of say $6,000 and paid property taxes of $12,000 and that’s $265, 657.