I remove garbage disposals. 

Again it isn't enforced necessarily, but if there are issues at the home that will be one of the codes at their disposal to shut the property down.

If you have but few thousand dollars to invest and don’t want to or are unable to commit to the “apprenticeship” route, I would suggest either purchasing a small property with owner carryback financing (not easy) or studying the publicly traded real estate securities market (mainly REITs) and investing in some selected REITs then following all the information made available about the REITs operations, property acquistion and disposal, property leasing, debt financing, etc.  

I was replacing a garbage disposer and had to make a beer run. 

In that way I can dispose of a large portion of bulk at little cost.

Overall, my tenant was great; however, After conducting a final walk through, I discovered that the walls had a lot of wear on them, the garbage disposal was broken, and the house was dirty.

Through the years I began to think more strategically, and slowly but surely a ideal portfolio began to take shape in my mind that I was able to use to guide me in both acquiring assets and disposing of assets that didn’t fit the portfolio.Seems to me that when Capital is limited, and your main asset is the long term time horizon available to youth, any time spent thinking about  “your portfolio” is probably wasted; to accelerate wealth accumulation you have to decide the degree of risk you want to accept and accumulate assets, or more to the point “do deals” that give you the greatest return for that level of risk.  

The complex has a mix of 1, 2, and 3 BR condos, and the 1 BR units are in the sweet spot for us, in that their price is too low for conventional financing, leaving cash sales and owner financing as the primary options for incumbent owners of single units looking to dispose of their apartments.  

With resources such as BiggerPockets at my disposal, I will continue to learn and expand my experience, while growing my business and hopefully helping others along the way.The local market has obviously changed a lot in the last 10+ years since I was flipping full time.

@Mark Stone No, they are suspended until you have passive income to offset them or you can deduct them when you dispose of the property.