You might expect filth and neglect....but not indoor paintball meets psychedelic porn graffiti! 

And people don't always make rational decisions, so that's where there's opportunity.

I also used the spray gun indoors, which required extra prep work.

It seemed like it could be a money maker to the right team but was too much of a stretch for my capacity.

They don’t want to be calling us a million times over a broken ice maker (sure, insert some anecdotal story about a tenant that never stopped calling a landlord over petty issues.

The insurance company has a portal where the tenant signs up, the tenant gets billed $12-$15 per month tied to their rent, and the landlord will get a % of the premium credited back towards the master policy.Not a huge money maker, but if you have hundereds or thousands of units, this is less expensive than having office staff track if the policies are in place.

"No fighting indoors. 

Eventually, I learned that if I wanted to make real money and save my body, I needed to do the work with my checkbook.

In a building, most of the time you make really good cash flow, so if one tenant leaves unexpectedly or doesn't pay the rent, the other tenants are still covering most of my expenses and mortgage, I am just not getting cash flow for that month or those months.I usually can control a higher purchase price, which is one of my goals, to get as many mortgages as possible with low down-payment, locked on 30 year mortgages at low interest rates.

. - Property management can be a huge difference maker.