Learn basic maintenance stuff from YouTube (caulking, painting, learn how to use a drill, etc) and find a well priced handyman for maintenance.

Payed for the so called free CD/DVD stuff and all of the sudden they are charging me $40 and $98 a month for something I never signed up for.You got to watch these gurus they like to sucker people in with these free CD's,etc but in reality it's a scam to drain you of monthly charges for something you never asked or signed up for.People like that belong in jail.

It ends when they AND their stuff is removed to the level that allows you to begin the re-rental process. 

It's also easier to handle dips in census similarly to dealing with rental vacancy if you have one rental property compared to a larger apartment building.My wife loves the operations but we have steadily been working her out of the day-to-day stuff. 

Sad truth of our current legal system, but if you go through the eviction process and he loses all this stuff, you are in the clear. 

But we don't know how it works for the tax implications of that for the hairs...Or would a trust be better? 

If the transaction has "hair", the feds care and financial crimes can be prosecuted for up to 10 years after the transaction. 

doesn't make sense to treat the house then throw all the stuff away, and replacing the carpet and repainting the entire house2.

Things change and we get older and generally think the new stuff sucks.

So I didn't know if these guys are talking about that kind of stuff too or the larger Yes.