Quote from @Ana Mills: The high quotes for the electricians will be way cheaper than having your handyman do it and it causing damage, causing a fire, or even worse causing a fire later when someone is living there and that person/persons getting hurt because of the work being done by an unlicensed worker doing the work. 

From what I've seen (especially in markets like Phoenix and San Antonio), it's often a matter of alignment rather than luck.Make Your Property a No-Brainer: ALE primarily works with displaced families - think floods, fires, or other home damages.

If your occupancy rate drops, you may able to patch the damage by trying other platforms but this will further decrease your ranking on the system in the future. 

. --- We haven't seen a S8 inspection report in over a decade that required a tenant to fix damages they obviously caused.

I have it written in my leases that tenants are responsible for clogs as well as damage from clogs.

what is damage protection insurance? 

I was born and raised there, so I am very familiar with flood and wind damage from hurricanes.

I've been using Stessa for years... struggling keeping the connection with my bank and I've had several instances where months worth of transactions disappear and when they're able to restore them for me, they are all uncategorized, etc.

.- increase in vacancy to 30%, 40%, 50% (this could be a combination of bad luck: one unit water damaged, one unit tenant trashed, and you have to evict two more - on a 10 unit portfolio that would be tough, even though only temporary)- lower rents (for whatever reason, what happens if rents go down 10% or 20%?)

I see some good info about down payments being bigger, buyer damages the house then defaults, etc..