There are definitely still pockets of the Richmond area that I don't want to spend a lot of time in in the middle of the night, but I think the positive side of this conversation is how much more in tune I became with my community.

The majority of people lie closer to the middle of the spectrum though and are less vocal.

If you are in the middle of an industrial park, you may have some more difficulty.Only other thing that could be turning people away is environmental?

At that time, market rents have increased, and it in the middle of the easiest time to place a tenant.

Should investors leverage the maximum they can in their real estate, work to pay it off, or is the answer somewhere in the middle?

I've got a tale of 2 friends of mine owning rentals, middle class sort of rentals both of them.

I am going to see if they want to 16 month lease, so that way it will renew in the spring and not the middle of the holidays.

Just removing them will create "craters" in the middle of tile and look unsightly as they had been anchored to the floor.In the lease it states fixtures are supposed to remain in the unit after the lease

I've been EXTREMELY busy. oh and my realtor decided to quit real estate while I was in the middle of escrow AND while I was in Indonesia where I didn't have access to text or calls, only email!

For a bedroom that only had a pull chain light in the middle and no wall switch I bought one of the remote control ceiling fans and mounted the remote permanently on the wall so the tenant couldn't lose it.