In some places you can earn 20% Cash on cash.

He emailed me and told me that if the other two properties sold, that my property value would be "severely" reduced.

The lender can usually require you to reduce the amount outstanding in part as well, say your home value is viewed as falling with other properties in the area, they may require the same loan to value remain constant or be reduced.You need to read HELOCs carefully!

So, if you self manage, you can reduce that 50% to 36%.

If I understand correctly, my NOI is $5397 for a CAP rate of 15%.Looking forward, I should be able to reduce the taxes to about $800 with a revaluation and market rent for 2/1s is about $550.

Larger master baths Ill do in satin, semi-gloss on the rest for greater moisture resistance.If there is color on the walls I like flat white ceiling as the flat reduces shadowing which highlights imperfections, and flat white "lifts" the ceiling while darker colors "lower" it.

If anyone could do a better job giving a black eye to the business, and earn the well deserved ridicule in threads like this, I don’t know who that would be.Jeff

These are decently profitable rentals and I have a concern that the city would look to increase property taxes I am looking to reduce based on rental income.

The tasks I like to focus on are the things where a few hours of work will earn or save the business thousands of dollars -- essentially, these are the tasks that are generating hundreds of dollars per hour.

Even if all goes well, with that much work, you are earning very little equity.