Your protection is language in your purchase contract requiring the deed provide you marketable title in fee simple and a professional title search and title insurance to cover you.

The only work involved is if the so-called realtor lied or posted the wrong info. this is very common many brokers myself included have minimum fee's of 5 to 10k..

I've went through several over the years and last year just decided to self-manage everything because the fees were just not worth it for the low level of service I was receiving.

I like this method, but I've noticed more banks are charging hefty fees for these types of transactions.

The feature that’s most attractive to me would be having a unified payment system that could track and apply late fees.

Rental demand has been strong with an asking of $1,700 per month per unit that does not include utilities.

I had it at 2.5% (per my agent) right now i have both at 10% arbitrarily. how do i estimate Capex and Maintenance better?

Understand the fees involved and calculate the total cost for an entire year of management so you can compare the different managers.

The negative 1K per month includes the property management fee.

Quote from @Elvin William: Quote from @Bob Stevens: I just today got $900 for a 1 BR in the hood, (7-unit building, all in 34k per unit) this is why I like the lower end areas!!