On the other hand if you wholesale it and get it under contract for $60K and assign it for a $5K fee, then you take a short cut to getting to your $5K profit, but you miss the opportunity to learn the rehab part.As has been said before, verify your numbers...trust no one's numbers but your own, assume nothing.

They have to cut into sheet rock and fish wires.

Best way to offset this is to pay any credit cards before the statement cuts so they report zero balance and try to raise the limits thus lowering your overall credit utilization.

For a tech to do these things, it would have been probably $100 for the truck roll each time, and $50, $50, and $10 for the parts, respectively.Every year or two, I also cut the power to the outside A/C unit and hose out the coils with a garden hose. 

That gets expensive and cuts into profits.  

I cut a 6 feet wide opening that leads into the kitchen.What say you folks?

Hire third party inspectors just google for them  every big market has them  they are the same guys the banks hire the HML hire etc.. when done then hire a home inspector for   a full report to make sure your contractor did not cut corners. and everything is to code..

Wait until the sale or try and cut a deal with the owner ahead of time? 

So RUBS will not cut down total consumption IMHO.With RUBS, allocation is based more or less on square footage.

I would inspect my properties in the early months of the lease but generally I didn't need to once I had a good handle on the amount of care they were taking.What cut way down on my turnover cost was requiring a minimum of a two year lease.