If you do value billing and not hourly like a lot of firms do, having a final price based on similar jobs with some give just in case it ends up being more is the way to go. 

It allows you to assign backup cleaners to your property just in case your primary cleaner can't make it.

Hi there Justin!

And wouldn't ya know it, just in time for polling open....

Rentals create cash flow, and that's what we want as real estate investors, but you need cash on hand for unforeseen circumstances.The AC needs to be replaced, that's $7K to $10K or more depending on the size of the house and if you have one rental, it will eat all your cash flow, same to replace a roof, etc, or if tenant trash the home, you need money to fix it again.To me personally a nice rental portfolio that is healthy consists about 10 units, so if you have an issue with a house the portfolio can cover the repairs and still healthy, but when starting you need to have cash on hand just in caseYes, there are multiple strategies you can use to hack your way to buy your first rental with minimum cash, but I would start wholesaling or fix and flip a few deals to create that cash as fast as possible

We have around $100,000 per year in expenses just in the various tech we use and it only get's more and more expensive as we grow our book of business.Thanks 

Quote from @Justin Moser: Quote from @Sunny A.: I don't see Poconos as a lucrative market right now.I have operated in the market for almost 7 years now with few properties.

My name is Justin, and I've been a full-time real estate investor for over 15 years.

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Later on, these questions will play a role and it's not that they are unimportant now, they are just in the wrong order.