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My main helper has three kids, lives in a very modest $30,000 home that's fully paid off, makes about $25,000 a year working for an electrical cable manufacturer.After the second day he was proposing mortgaging his house if I would just go halvsies with him on the $50,000 Mastery program. $25,000 for me wouldn't have been easy, but my wife and I did actually buy another rental for $25,000 cash a few months later.Most incredible thing I ever saw.

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He told me he changed all light bulbs to CFL light bulbs and check all cables for shorting when I pressed on exactly how the preventative maintenance was done.

Is it a good deal to sign an exclusive deal with a cable company to provide their services to the prospective tenants?

Had a few buddies at work that put the jumper cables on me and I went and bought it.

All I have found in the past is to Tile, or use something like FRP panels that looks like a gas station bathroom. 

But my tenants are pipefitters (they can change a hot water tank), boilermakers (can change a hot water tank with their eyes closed), electricians (can replace a fuse box with a breaker box), electrical crews (can wire a 2 story house for cable tv), scaffold builders (can trim a tree with a pole saw), welders (can replace the factory exhaust with a custom stainless steel exhaust on a riding mower), construction foreman (can add a bathroom counter and vanity).

There is a miscellaneous of like $100 to every $400 I do no matter how thoroughly I estimate ahead of time, or so if feels like it.Paint in and out ($1,000)So far I have gutted the bath room, installed new subfloor,underlayment and tile, sheetrock and FRP throughout, new toilet and sink vanity and shower plumbing, and purchased all the vinyl tile for the kitchen as well ($2,000 including $300 dumpster rental for garage demo).I just can't leave this stuff alone as I do not want to crawl under the house again, or at least not any time too soon.

Our solution for a smaller property was to install the DVR in a locked cabinet in the basement, running the ethernet cable up to the apartment above (when it was vacant).