Houses will fall most likely but payment ie buyer payment and rent payment will maintain.

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Above all else, people enjoy a well-maintained rental property.

This is one way of adding to that difference and maintaining a relationship.

Felt that living in a house would give us better understanding of what we might need to do to maintain it once it was rented.

It is a college town which has allowed many properties to become rundownand not maintained as well as they could be because college kids could just wreck them again.

I’m sure Lakeview would drive a heavier premium and maintain the same occupancy.

That said, if addressing issues and maintaining the relationship as strictly business is hard for you, hire a property manager.3.

Well-maintained.

Looks more like it is for general accounting.I have some clients that I help maintain their books, some use QBO (quickbooks), Buildium, AppFolio, and custom platforms.I think hiring an accounting firm to help with your in-house accounting is probably a better idea than to find an accounting platform that you will end up wasting time learning.