Your beef should be with the seller and not the previous property manager.

If you don't have the ability to depreciate the home then this is even more likely to be the case.So, beef up the pros you're working with, get real estate professional status (if it makes sense for you), and/or make small tweaks along the way to optimize and then rest easy knowing that you're paying the right amount :) 

The food index rose 0.5% in March as increased costs for chicken were partially offset by lower prices for beef and veal.

If an outside company is hired, your beef would have been with that company. 

Your beef is with the dishonest seller. 

Time to beef up the lease.   

I'm 54 and want to prepare for retirement and beef up my real estate passive income along with paying off debt. 

@Russell Brazil,I have family that works in various commodity markets (lumber/pork/beef) , and each one of them says the prices continue to climb at unsustainable rates. 

So here’s the beef if you have a short term loan that’s already used up 3 to 6 months and you  have less one year left.

It's good to be as agreeable as possible, as much as possible, but when you have to lay down the law(with tenants or owners), feelings get hurt and some peoples petty vindictive nature can surface and Unfortunately an ugly by product of social media, is that many people are quite anti-social.