One thing I've learned from my experience is that I do not set hard rules.

so if you're impatient and just buy something random it's not going to work and you'll just set yourself back.

Specifically, I’d love to hear about best practices for managing shared spaces, screening tenants, and setting up house rules.Additionally, I plan to split the utilities among the tenants—any advice on how to handle this efficiently would be greatly appreciated!

Anyway, the current auditor set the current rates, and is still at the job..https://www.hamiltoncountyauditor.org/

Also on my rents I have all my amounts set different so that I know which unit it is. 1 may be 600.00 and the other 1 will be 601.00.

If supply exceeds demand, then the lower cost supplier will set market rates, and high cost supplier will lose money.for the current case of real estate, most markets have more rental demand than supply.

I see posts on CA insurance that appear to be ignorant to both the past method used to set insurance prices as well as the approach the current commissioner is advocating.The current policy had insurers set rates based on past losses.  

However, a lot of concerns can be mitigated with looking at their past rental behavior in a lot of different settings.

The numbers don’t lie, and I can walk you through actual case studies to show how flips perform here.If you’re set on the Midwest, I get it.

I have a good cash flowing portfolio that has appreciated extremely well In the last 10 years, it’s a small college town off the radar,   and I know it’s a unicorn situation to find deals that are in markets set for great appreciation, and have solid cash flow, but I know there’s more out there!