All residents but the smokers have lost use of their balconies and keep windows closed now.

Foundation issues are not end all be all, there are some great foundation repair companies.

We discovered that there were a ton of exposed and illegally spliced wires in the attic under the blown in insulation and had to remove it all to find all the wiring.

At the end of the day we can screen our tenants all we want, but cannot control what people do.  

I do have some investment experience and I'm currently managing 1 property, all the numbers are great and there's a good amount of cash flow and long term growth so I'm not a total green horn. 

i tell them all the time to find a good W2 job you like and you plan on staying with a long time. 

. ($16,900 total)You can take 33k each year and pay $3,300 in taxes all 3 years. ($9,900 total)Obviously this is simplified but unless you expect to make much less and be in a lower tax bracket in the future those deductions could come in handy.

It's just going to cost you quite a bit of money to have your accountant prep all of them.

It was all really quick, and the time to complete everything happened a lot faster than I expected (which was a good thing).I was worried at first that I had to use all the partners that Rent to Retirement had, but it was really easy for me to shop around for different lenders with different terms and rates, insurance providers, and property management company.

All that cost's $ in labor time and systems.