Currently, my unit is being turned over (painted, repaired) from tenants who lived there for 5 years.I will be having my contractor itemize the following costs for repairs to deduct from their security deposit of $2200.Are these fair and reasonable deductions that go beyond reasonable wear and tear?

They should be having a section 8 episode in about a week or two. 

DO NOT LOVE: Anything to do with golf, “botanical” gardens, fast food, poorly behaved children.

Thanks to your thread I've realized that I liken Dave Ramsey to lukewarm pizza:Cold pizza would be having a lot of bad debt (credit cards, payday loans, etc.) and paying interest on that debtLukewarm pizza is Dave Ramsey: not having debt and paying cash for everything.

., young working professionals) which I'll know best how to cater to and will hopefully behave like me (pay rent) so to your point I am mindful not to go too low however tempting on paper.. and it is tempting haha

I will be having a discussion tomorrow with the lender who is referred to by my agent and he is supposed to provide me both loans for the mortgage and for the reno.This is something I am considering in preference to putting my own larger money.

Such a property is a commodity, and in the next downturn, it will behave like one.  

Going to be having our first rental soon and trying to get all of the processes in place.

@Omar WilliamsYou may be having a Net Worth problem.After trying to use your equity as a DP, you have just reduced your worth.

In my area, properties up to a fourplex behaves very similarly as a SFR.