Usually there are caps put in place for yearly increases to owner occupied houses, but not for investments.

So rent is 550 a unit for 52,800 rents.Take out 60% with landlord paid water.52,800 X (.40) 60% costs = 21,120 NOI23,378/ 52,800 = seller states 44% expenses for property management, operating and expenses, and vacancy.Maybe the seller self-manages for a 6 or 8 percent savings but an 80% chance the end buyer will not self manage so that savings goes away unless a small local investor willing to put in the time.

@Adam Gerig Honestly in the 18 months I have owned my houses I have never had a day of vacancy once the first tenant is put in once acquired.

Put in an address in the search bar and the Property Analysis link will be in a blue box in the property details page.Check it out and post an opinion on value.

So I told him just to contact the listing agent via email and put in offers that way in order to skirt that issue.

We ended up doing a cash-in refi and the folks that put in more money are getting some returns on the new money.

I want to create a contract that is both fair to my tenants and advantageous to myself, and also meets the legal requirements for such contracts in North Carolina.What are some points for deciding such things as how much for the security deposit, amount put in escrow above standard rent, amount recommended for option-to-buy money down, etc etc?

If there really is an issue they should put in writing and document by taking pictures.

Or if you can find a window wholesaler, windows aren't hard to put in yourself. 

We put in a block for the URL for viewster, and hopefully that rectifies the situation.In the future, if something like that happens, having a screenshot of the ad would be very helpful, but again, hopefully just blocking the domain resolves this.Sorry for the annoyance, guys.