Many of the entities involved in this line of investment are cut throat and liars to the core.

Further, I had negotiated 12 months interest reserve; they cut that to 3 months.  

You can keep it under control a little by keeping the grass constantly cut and nothing laying around the house on the ground..

With the amount of losses you have had it might be a good time to try and offer a Cash for Keys deal for the tenant to move out and just cutting your losses while there is uncertainty about what is going to happen in 2021.

Most spend too much of their time and resources on the set up and completely ignore the day to day responsibilities and/or cut corners and costs where greater attention and resources should be spent.  

They're probably fine with you paying for additional marketing as long as they aren't cut out of the deal.

By the sounds of it you are going to have your work cut out for you. 

We have cable or YouTube TV.Can't be cheap on this.We even advertise if someone else isn't offering cable channels what else are they cutting corners on?

Landlords in illinois for sfh rentals don't provide snow removal or lawn cutting so thats not an issue.   

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