I'm a little local handyman landlord just outside of Pittsburgh with a tight little self-managed C-class portfolio, for instance.Here, in low-rent single family and small multifamily, the name of the game is finding that one good old building with strong fundamentals going for it out of ten other true moneypit crapshacks that are really ready for the bulldozer.You get nowhere here unless you screen like crazy and put the people you rent to under a microscope.

Is that true?

Also if utilities are included then it would be more or less a budgeted monthly utility billing and I would definitely want a true-up at the end of their lease year.

Is it true that when you change ownership in an LLC it can trigger a "do on sale" tax situation?

Is it true that when you change ownership in an LLC it can trigger a "do on sale" tax situation?

Agents need to be true experts of the area and their market!

Is this market too aggressive to find a true wholesale property?

Is it true?

It's in the math.Let me state that I sell my rental properties right around the 5 year mark anyway, but this still holds true if you're holding it longer.If you have to pay for a roof out of pocket, say $5000, then you will pay full price for the roof, and you will have to get paid back from the rent money over time...which cuts severely into your cash flow. 

What they say is true - if you find a smoking hot cash-flowing 4-plex in a cash-flowing market (say, C are)... you're going to have vacancies!