It's still early but we're expecting tenants to use the service for 9-18 months, and about 45% to also order the extra reporting of their previous rent payments which costs ~$20-25.

I'm struggling to generate extra lead flow from builders, mostly because it's so difficult to identify folks that are doing ground up, business purpose construction. 

In practice, this could mean 5 extra days that no rent is collected.  

$800k at a couple extra percent means it’s costing you AT LEAST $16k PER YEAR in additional interest.

He demanded $2000 extra and said we had 24 hours to pay if we wanted the loan closed!

It may sound nice to pay a 6% management fee but the extra fees can add up to be more than the other company that charges 10% with no additional fees.

Also, if anything were to go wrong I wouldnt have the capital available to pay extra on a property every month. 

 - a study on rent cost compared to ownership cost shows that virtually every large city market it is initially cheaper to rent than own (I believe is was cheaper to went in 97 of the largest 100 markets)Miami and Florida have extra concerns:- insurance difficulties have resulted in large increase in insurance costs.  

House hacking lets you live in one unit and rent out the others, which can help cover your mortgage and generate some extra income.

A 50k addition (adding an extra bath and bedroom) would likely add 75k of value to the house.