Flipping apartment buildings during this last cycle has been like selling shovels during the Gold Rush.

If you can buy in to a SFR with an ADU (there's some new builds in Sellwood that have nice ADUs) at 3.7% interest, are you going to get a better return than shoveling 100K+ of your own money into building out an ADU?

Perhaps you can also say in the ad that referrals for lawn mowing and shoveling services will be provided upon acceptance of application.

And mowing their own lawn and shoveling their own snow is also standard for duplexes.

And no way am I shoveling snow or paying hundreds of dollar each month so the tenant can get their own cars out of their garage. 

@Eric Ippolito  first it takes Capital to fund the due diligence process and bring the project to shovel ready but the following steps are free and are done by you to determine feasibility.Check with the city or county to determine what is required for all approvals including site plan and building permits, proffers, water/sewer tap fees, bonding requirements, inspections and CO process and time frame for all approvals.You also need to check with the utility companies and get an idea of availability and cost estimates from them for water, sewer, power, gas, cable, installation and connection requirements, tap fees, hookup charges, transformer location and relocation, power line and power pole relocation issues.Check to see if you have to install any manholes,fire hydrants, curb, gutter, sidewalks, street signs, street lighting any specific street design or access requirements,.Check DOT requirements for access, stop lights and permits, traffic studiesDWQ requirements for permits, permit fees, time framesThis is a broad overview of the process and your civil engineer can handle all of this but it's good for you to know exactly what's required.

Frankly, whenever we inherit a new property under management it's easy to tell the tenant was doing the mowing.Same goes with shoveling snow, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen if you put it on the tenant.

We went with a dark brown/bluish/grayish kitchen cabinets and espresso laminate throughout and 6 inch based board which we painted espresso as well to just add the Spanish flare to it.

His single tenants would have weekend card parties, use up the parking spaces in front of my house, and my tenant threaten to call the town complaining about his doing an illegal rooming house, defined as having 3 unrelated parties sharing the house.I hold open houses when I rent, and when single roommates come, I tell them they have no lawns to mow and snow to shovel at apartment complexes.

I only want to have them be responsible for things like landscaping, shoveling snow, being a handy man for minor maintenance issues around the house, etc.