Ideally, this would be someone with a strong reputation and a proven track record in full-scale renovations, along with in-depth knowledge of the Pittsburgh market.If you have any recommendations or advice on contractors who fit this description, I’d love to hear from you!

Just be mindful that georgia does not recognize bonus depreciation. 

Learn every word you don't recognize like you were learning a foreign language. 

At move in, they are taken by the hand and shown everything is working, if they clog a drain it's their clog unless proven otherwise.

Most of the time you're talking about land that doesn't have all that much value and any appraiser that's not crooked is going to recognize the land for what it is - you can't comp 15 acres of swamp or rocky cliffs with 15 acres of flat farmland and get away with that honestly, unless the entire point is to defraud the IRS. 

As with everything "always and never" is proven wrong because there is someone out there right now making sure of it. 

Stick to your guns. some HML just send out the POF with out doing any look see into the borrower so I agree HML POF is suspect until proven other wise..

Helical piers placed every 5' should fix this, but for a significant cost. 3) Due to a toilet becoming loose and failure to recognize that the toilet leaks every time it is flushed, the subfloor has "significant deterioration."

Those of us that stick to proven methods of buy-and-hold will look like geniuses after 20+ years.

We have a lot of single mothers who are nurses/senior health aids/hospital aids/more who have proven to the be the best tenants by far.