An example would be a slip and fall on a snow covered sidewalk that you should have shoveled.

Did you hold it or did you turn a shovel to improve it.  

I had been planning to go, but a condition that I thought was under control flared up.  

That was last week, this week I've made another declaration," This is the last time I will shovel someone else's property!"

But I think your hourly rate may be such that the opportunity costs for you to be showing units, handling tenant issues, and shoveling sidewalks would be too high (and this from a die hard self managing fan).That is, you may want to focus on what you do best and most profitably: dentistry.

Rental Calc Monthly Yearly   Income Rental Income $ 2,325.00 $ 27,900.00 Laundry $ - $ - Storage $ - $ - Misc $ - $ -   Expenses Mortgage (Includes insurance and taxes) $ (956.00) $ (11,472.00) Utilities $ (150.00) $ (1,800.00) HOA $ - $ - Lawn-Shoveling $ (50.00) $ (600.00) Vacancy $ (116.25) $ (1,395.00) Capex $ (186.00) $ (2,232.00) Property Management $ (186.00) $ (2,232.00) Misc unexpected (Repairs) $ - $ -     $ 680.75 $ 8,169.00 

For me, I like that I don't have to worry about a roof (one two units under each roof in this development), siding, shoveling, mowing etc.Also it kept my rehab costs down bc I only had to worry about the inside.

I was thinking of working for them but I also had the idea of creating my own landscaping company like mowing lawn taking leaves and shoveling snow off people drive ways.

By the time we got there, the tenant had shoveled a 15-20 foot long path from the back door to the crawl access.

I felt like digging,it's simple, I could do it, I had been wheelbarrow person up to this point.. and directing them.Well I fell in the hole,, yup up to my shoulders after the shovel slipped out from under me when I hit a rock.