It is labor intensive and if you are not experienced you have to do your due dilligence and monitor the quality of the work you are receiving. 

Generally Allentown is very management intensive, especially in Center City where the turnover is high and the tenants are of the lower income variety.  

I don't think foreclosure is an intensive management burden and the knife cuts both ways in my experience with some attorney firms being less communicative and timely.  

However my intension of posting was to help others so I am glad you corrected me.

Perhaps in higher-end rentals, but that is more labor/time intensive than I want to invest in.From my perspective, I believe that you've already seen a market response to proposed Light Rail stops in the north end and the time to buy and get the easy appreciation is past.

If it is something that is intensive I get someone else to do it.Example is changing the oil on a car.

This means that all interactions such as buying a property, paying for expenses and receiving income take paperwork, delay and processing fees.The alternative, which is generally superior for a time-sensitive and transaction intensive asset such as rental property is the IRA LLC.

The theory is to trade some of our built up equity for less intensive management. 

An older building and more management intensive tenants dictates needing a full time PM and a repair person to keep it operating.What you can bake into the numbers for a full time repair person varies on the rents per door collected.Typically you need about 75 units or more for this but for example 1,000 rents per month at 40 doors is equivalent in gross income to 80 doors at 500 a month rent.

I'm curious if you think this process is worth pursuing with any tenant in your area, or if you think someone contesting the garnishment and fighting you every step would have made this too time intensive to be worth it?