Margins are tight and screwing up the math or having unrealistic expectations will end you up in trouble pretty quick!

Just having that information might get them in trouble unless they have a good alternate source of the information. 

Maybe you always felt a fence would increase your market rents.Trick with this is you want to only do things that truly permanently improve the property value.

Though, my Naivete has gotten me into trouble before.

Can't really see the metal wall from my house but you can see the roof to the commercial building as you're driving in and in the winter the trees provide less cover - although there is a very high and nice privacy fence to separate. 

I am a spreadsheet kind of person and am having trouble with this specific deal since neither holding or selling seem to come out on top.

EX: studio can have a split system and a water meter with little trouble.

Hopefully I can be on the other side of this fence soon.

I had to build fences along my driveway accessing a drive under garage, because the retaining wall was more than 30" tall (standard building code item) but these properties were built in the 40s/50s and never had a fence there until I rented Section 8 and they required it.From a tenant perspective, I never had any of the issues James notes.

Banks do this because they know that with this difference a borrower probably will not get in trouble and default on the loan.This brings us back to small apartments.