If you are getting into buy and hold real estate work for a pm for a while so you can see how various asset classes perform. 

The odds are they will under perform.  

Real Estate is a team sport.

he showed poor job performance and promised to fix everything he stopped showing up to the job site he stopped returning my calls it then became a lack of communication. 

Are the notes performing? 

Mac Investment Property Group is subbing out all trades for labor, but we are performing all material negotiations and building department communication.

If that's the case in your municipality, you can have the tenant pay, but remember that if they don't pay the bill, YOU will be on the hook.In Scranton, the city in its infinite wisdom sold the only performing asset, the Scranton Sewer Authority, to PAWC. 

Single-family home sales jumped 13.2 percent year-over-year, with 6,044 units sold, marking the eighth consecutive month of positive sales;The Days on Market (DOM) figure for single-family homes was unchanged at 68 days;Total property sales surged 14.9 percent, with 7,393 units sold;Total dollar volume increased 19.4 percent to about $2.1 billion;The single-family home median price rose 5.2 percent to $245,000, reaching a February high;The single-family home average price climbed 5.9 percent to a February high of $301,648;Single-family homes months of inventory was at a 3.5-months supply, down fractionally from 3.6 months last February but above the national inventory level of 3.1 months;Townhome/condominium sales rose for a third straight month – up 12.8 percent, with the average price up 14.5 percent to $216,170 and the median price up 16.5 percent to $176,500;Lease properties experienced a mixed performance, as single-family home rentals increased 5.8 percent with the average rent up 1.8 percent to $1,768;Volume of townhome/condominium leases fell 2.2 percent with the average rent up 3.5 percent to $1,607.

The reason is that you're asking a question about market timing and asset performance in a changing market. 

.** See Performance Standards § 4.3.J