The thing may be such a pain you're aching to get rid of it with or without a deck.

I don’t think the original owner enforced his fees, and he accepted partial payments, while we do not.To keep track of rent payment, to generate invoices, to manage work orders, and to enable ACH direct debiting, we signed up for Rentecdirect.com as soon as we closed on the property.

With my tenants, it's rarely a problem but with tenants without a regular paycheck who can't budget, then it doesn't help me chase rent.The advantage of this system IMO is that there is no clawback because it uses the ACH.

Risk is the likelihood of not aching your goal.  

We are from NYC (downtown Manhattan) however, we are not looking in our area for investments (for obvious reasons :))We wanted some advice:1- First off, I wanted people's opinions on the best niches for us:We are a couple, my husband is a doctor,and I own a food business (start up)We want to get into real estate to help fund my business and to get him out of medicine!

By the time you pay for soft costs such as soils engineering, architectural design services, structural engineering, title 24 and permits plus construction costs it just won't be worth the head aches and even then it is a very time consuming effort.

Bonus is they have free ACH payment service for landlord/tenant for when you find a tenant and want to get paid rent.Smartmove.com also lets you email the credit/background request to the tenant, they fill out the info and then the service will email you the reports once tenant pays for the reports.

The contacts you make can be worth the head ache.

I own a small business and use an ACH processing company for the majority of my customs payments.

I'm using cozy, there is a 7-10 day delay on deposit if using ACH but it's free to both parties.