A good example to reduce your potential costs without raising rents is to have the tenant agree to handle all repairs under a certain amount.

so it turned into an accidental flip.i have one i did in 2021-2022 that broke even when i finished, but now cash flows well because i've been able to raise the rent a few times.happy to help further

Still, it makes sense because oftentimes some of the rents have never been raised for years, and those NW side neighborhoods have increased rent dramatically! 

They leave, you raise rents and on it goes.

There are a ton of people raising for other people's deals.

I own a SFH in Santa Barbara County (it's in an unincorporated area between SB and Goleta.)Ive had wonderful tenants since buying the property in late 2017 and have raised the rent just twice (still WELL under market value rent).

We were both born/raised in the area and my family still lives there so long term we will eventually move back ourselves. 2.

We secured a 200k USD senior debt position which allows us to avoid raising so much equity.

IM from Indy and i was born and raised in 46222.

I might stay away from self managing in my first deal and rather focus on raising funds and managing the investment.