It doesn't sound like they  "replaced" the fridge and are withholding rent to pay for that, it sounds like they want to withhold rent as leverage for the repair to be made.All that said, if a covered appliance is broken in one of our properties, it will be hours and maybe a few days before an action plan is underway. 10 days seems excessive for a fridge but we probably don't have the whole story, maybe they're waiting on parts or something.

So far we have completed 4 with an average return of about 45k and have one more underway.

We were able to get the excavation work underway and form the foundations.

They are building a lot of homes out that way though, off the new consumes exit on I-5 there is a huge development project underway, which may affect home values.  

I may have a deal underway as I have an extremely motivated seller with a manufactured "double-wide" home in Mesa, AZ.

In that situation (which is currently underway), I searched for the property with my project manager/architect, bought the property in my name, and am writing checks for the rehab as the work is completed by our GC.

After making a decision last month to add in some flips. this year.Right now we have 2 underway and a third closing by the end of this month, and a fourth project we will hopefully be starting on in the first week of August.

However, a lot of new condo developments are underway.

We are using general contractors for the two properties that are under way. 

However, the actual path of the federal funds rate will depend on the economic outlook as informed by incoming data.The Committee is maintaining its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities and of rolling over maturing Treasury securities at auction, and it anticipates doing so until normalization of the level of the federal funds rate is well under way.