She said she has had to pay out-of-pocket for exterminators and plumbers after getting no response to pest and leaky-pipe complaints to RAD’s property managers.Another tenant of a Mendenhall-led fund, Terry Golden, 41, said he has been dealing for about a year with a flooded basement that his property managers have neglected to repair at his 880-square-foot home in West Philadelphia’s Haddington section.His living and dining rooms are piled high with belongings he’d previously been storing in the basement: furniture, appliances, trophies from his days coaching little-league football.

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Be conservative with your numbers – When using a cash-on-cash calculator, I recommend budgeting at least 10% for maintenance and repairs instead of 5%.

. :)Anyway, I like your strategy of driving and looking for houses in need of repair and sending handwritten letters and contacting rentals for the reasons you gave.

I'm thinking that repairing the plumbing leaks and getting the soil dried out could be a permanent solution.   

After a few too many midnight leak repairs, she wanted to offload it but didn’t want a big tax hit.

You don't want negative feedback on your review.I don't like to make repairs. 

I'd love to have a small line of credit on the property before the end of the year to cover any other repairs or upgrades that will need to go into the property.

They will try to run 2 kitchens and that can mean clogged drains in your wet bar kitchen.Be sure there is personal recourse when you need to sue them for $40k in repairs above the deposit.

If you buy real estate, you will spend hours and days and weeks and months of your life dealing with it… Home repairs, guests,… An investment really has to be pretty amazing to sacrifice all that time for itThe houses I own I bought many years ago at dirt cheap prices and dirt cheap mortgage rates.