My goals are to use buy and hold properties to provide passive income for myself and my family and stop running on the  hamster wheel that is my office all week long.  

Zero fee, unless it's huge and running around inside the house loose.Caged things like hamsters, gerbils, mice, goldfish, birds = zero fees.

In addition, there was a hamster/rodent box in the garage (We have a no animal/pet clause), she had sealed up the vent opening under the side garage door that is there to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning from the gas water heater/gas heater/blower and the gas dryer that all reside in the garage and the last thing is she had put cardboard covering in the garage door windows and the side garage window to the block sun from coming in.I am told the gentleman that is staying in the garage is the boyfriend of one of the daughters that is a tenant. 

I don't care about your sob story, your hamster has leukemia, your job hunt isn't going well, yadda yadda yadda.OUT.    

you have to generate more cash or get stuck in the BRRRR hamster wheel and risk associated with remote rehab in low value assets.. 

It was like being on the hamster wheel.I wasn't alone.

@Jessica PerkinsNew York is a hamster wheel.

I used to run in the corporate hamster wheel.

My head is blowing up here after spinning my wheels like a hamster on a hamster wheel...Would also take a recommendation of a local contractor that I can talk to to get a rough estimate on fixing the duplex.

They have to run on the hamster wheel pretty hard.