Maintain a personal reserve that enables you to handle ordinary maintenance and emergency repairs.How much reserve should you have? 

Hire a lawyer, let the lawyer do their job, and make a rational determination on whether the courts will enable you to collect any money from the tenant or the parasite he stuck you with. 

This accelerated depreciation schedule often enables investor to shield over 100% of operating cash flow (provided the investor has the ability to offset other passive income).

I'm counting on regular inflation from 2018 to 2022 and then the unusual 13% jump in rental rates due to Ida enabling (at least in the short term) the ability to get around $2500 for rent.Use the calculator on this site to run both scenarios and be honest about your numbers.

This affects your credit rating and FICO score thus prevents you fro achieving personal independence by being a slave to an employer that does not enable you a way out.

Be passionate about the fact that the job enables you to invest in something you enjoy.

To all the landlords, do your rental agreements contain any clauses that enable you to evict your tenants on grounds other than non-payment of rent (although in reality it's because they refuse to pay you, think professional renters...)?

Ranch Investor (the GP) through our investor-portal makes it simple to enable passive investing.

You mentioned an inspector so it sounds like you are taking the right steps to get your data straight and enable yourself to make a sound decision. 

Being selective in the projects we work on, combined with the fact that we're vertically integrated, enables us to deliver superior returns like this.I also personally invest in syndicated deals (medical buildings, not apartments - so I have some diversification) and I am interested in diversifying some more.