Leave little pieces of pex pipe in front flower bed ( copper bandits will think they are too late)3.

If you balance your checkbook each month to the penny, you may have the patience to properly maintain an LLC.

I kept an ear to the ground all these years and found apartment buildings listed for pennies on the dollar.

Its really cool to know that you can command top rents & if you decided to sell it down the road, you can possibly make back every penny you paid into the place plus the house is worth almost double of what you paid! 

You will need every penny to cover costs at this stage in the game as most properties run negative the first few years due to deferred maintenance/unexpected Capex/under-estimating maintenance and operating expenses/property tax increase/black swan issues etc. as it is, so you should be saving your money and putting all your cash flow into building up reserves for when you have a legit need for it, not causing unnecessary problems for yourself.

Remember that every penny counts! 

IMO, with $10,000 you better just do important repairs and not try to tear into things that would be fine with a coat of paint. 

I had 300 feet of copper service wire stolen the day I put a house on the market but nothing quite as dramatic as what you experienced. 

I don't really care about the equity, because as I said I never put a penny towards it, but I don't want to take my name off the deed and stay on the note, that seems risky.

A lot of my junk didn’t make me a penny till after a years time this is a long term play .