On average I had 2-3 calls a year.....so lets say $800/year....... that's a LOT of cost for some pretty basic repairs that would have been cheaper if I found a repair man myself to do the repair.I did it out of convenience since I was out of state and dint have an connection to local repair services etc...... they made the arrangements....but when you actually look at the cost and the crap work they did, it was a bad business decision on my partYou MAY get lucky and THEY fit the bill for some big expense, so in the end you save big $$, but the cards are stacked against it.....

How about some concrete suggestions rather than abstracts, keep in mind these are examples and you can modify them anyway you want.1) Read or listen to 2 books a month2) Listen to every podcast from BP3) Analyze one deal everyday4) Find your local REIG (Real Estate Investor Group) and attend one event a month5) Seek one avenue of real estate you have never really done and research the crap out of it6) Start talking to banks, get prequalified if you can, be ready to move on anything you find7) Make a point to mention to everyone your meet that you are interested in investment property8) Get on a few real estate agent's lists and get a feel for what properties are going for in certain areas9) Call bandit signs of we buy houses people, get on wholesaler's lists10) Research property management companies in your area11) Spend your weekends driving for dollars (possibly while uber/lyft driving to make money while you do it)12) Read a real estate investment article every day13) Sign up for a webinar every week on BP14) Keep asking questions here!

This is why you have not yet installed your finish floor, because this crap gets everywhere and you don't want to waste time trying to keep a finish floor clean.

However this company offered a "better" product.With a crap installer

For investors, the property with a crap ton of equity seems to often be the primary residence.

I can't tell you how many times the automated title report was clear,  but then all of a sudden at the last minute when it's time to issue title insurance, the title company found a litany of crap that the homeowner was behind on (garbage service being a common one, but not the only one).

Although some people have given me crap for wanting to leave California to invest in Columbus, I truly believe that I have found a future gem and am making the right choice.

WHY are you people STILL nagging about DMM cold calling driving for dollars and STILL saying stupid crap like "Ohh everything works".

Back in 2020 when the pandemic COVID-19 refi boom started, I made the mistake of trying to broker loans to some of the slow-as-crap cut-rate lenders b/c the working-from-home-nothing-better-to-do consumer demanded it (I don't know your full scenario, I'm just assuming for the sake of discussion that you are getting an unusually good deal in exchange for all the pain they are putting you through), in almost all cases the above math revealed that this was not only financially in error (due to paying interest on the interest rate difference over those several extra months), but on top of that the consumers were NOT happy with their savings, after all the extra time/effort, about 99% of the time (on my end, I don't necessarily want a loan sitting stagnant in my pipeline for 4+ months either, so it's not like I won here either). 

It is a bit of a crap-show in Seattle when in comes to housing.