if you need you can go the property and see if the new toilet was installed, or new fan/light, or even if the room was painted.

I've been a Mizzou fan since birth.

He cleaned mold out of our bathroom fans and gave us cleaning supplies.

Im not a big fan out out of town investing, but having family down there gives me an excuse to diversify to San Antonio.

It's one page of the terms of the sale and 7 pages of "I'm just the agent so if the crap hits the fan, please don't sue me" disclosures.Back in 2007 when the market was tanking, a home buyer sued the broker who sold him a house that quickly went underwater.

Society for thePreservation of New England Antiquities.

We still don't know the purchase price or projected rents, but I'm not a fan of "buying cash flow" by increasing the cash in the property- it's usually not an efficient use of funds; your cash on cash return suffers dramatically.

Dodd-Frank makes seller financing to an owner occupant very cumbersome, and in some states, the SAFE ACT might preclude you from doing it at all.I'm a big fan of seller financing, but things have changed a lot over the past couple years...

And yeah, @Samuel Larger - I'm a huge fan of the duplex strategy.

I am not a fan of HOA's, they make buy and hold investing a pain.