Find a good property being totally mismanaged - offer to purchase 60% and take operational control selling your property management expertise and future profitability, providing property owner/seller with enough cash to pay off his pressing debts keeping current loan in place. 

It's directly manipulated by the Federal Reserve via quantitative easing, yield curve control, and short term manipulation of Fed Funds rate.Over the next 40 years, there will be a Minske Moment when people realize that (without reserve currency status, and the ability to counterfeit our own currency ad infinitum) the U.S Treasury is an objectively insolvent entity.

Not sure who you could talk into doing this.. you lose all control..

Or are you maintaining and cruising ?  

But if you both want to own/control the properties it probably makes more sense to have a legal entity.

Within three weeks, we managed to coordinate all aspects of the sale, including helping the seller transition her belongings into storage and securing a solid offer.This wasn’t just a transaction—it was about helping a client regain control over her life.

I’ve had clients pay $100k for a sewer line though (commercial properties, complicated lines running under parking lots, sidewalks, landscaping and the bid includes replacing the landscaping too, etc. or requiring a permit from the city to close off the road for the day with traffic control, etc.).

If your lease doesn't explicitly address pest control responsibilities, it’s worth reviewing and considering adding a pest clause in the future to prevent disputes by adding every single pest.

Note if prop 33 passes, SFR can become rent controlled.  

@Ananth SubramanianThe thing to remember is this: you can't control what other people do, only what you do.