Some months I’ve unfortunately had to pay like $150 out of pocket but I’m Planning on holding long term wise and the let the rental bare fruit later in my life because I’m only 22 and just wanted a base hit or a rental in a great neighborhood.

I think acknowledging the difficulties tenant's face sets you apart from other landlords.

With the ever changing market, I'm looking to learn about how everyone else is finding solutions to the challenges we are facing. 

I remember back when I was ramping up my own rental portfolio in those early-2000s San Diego days, I learned the hard way that ignoring “little” costs..like that termite treatment or the property manager’s onboarding fee..can turn what looked like a sweet deal into something that barely breaks even.Let’s say you pick up a property in one of those under-the-radar neighborhoods in Omaha or maybe on the south side of Chicago..markets I’ve seen a few colleagues dabbling in lately..you’ve got to be ready to get real about the numbers.

I have been receiving wrong accommodations and prices because because their personal life background, they were incapable of screening me nonetheless I had good credit and clear profile, they were just discriminating on the basis of their scarce preparation to human situation and so by their presuppositions, that's probably also illegal.You cannot say landlords are to be forgiven because they are doing a needed service, instead it's for that very reason they have to admit their fault and change their way of behave: if a business owner is occupying the market with bad practices and wrong services it's likely they need to leave their place and let others settle in who can operate the business correctly, their even more such of problem if their services is basic, but it's quite absurd it's on me to explain you this.Landlords would have to better understand theirs are affairs on a public market, it's not private or personal matter, and as so they have to behave buy clearly stated rules or face immediate consequences.

A EE bond is a pitiful interest on the face of it, but it is a guarenteed double value in 20 years, which equals 3.6 percent, I think. 

I have not seen it just taking face value that Ken is relating it correctly.

Rents in Portugal are very low and barely can cover for the mortgage.

You could sell those three properties and 1031 into a larger apartment building in the Midwest in much better shape and with management most likely without the same number trouble you are facing.

South Florida will face a hit, I believe, in the housing market but not necessarily Miami.