There are of course generalist, but often commercial agents/brokers are very specific in what they do....hotels, big hotels, small hotels, restaurants, tenant rep, industrial, car washes, strip centers, land, office, medical office, small apartments, medium sized apts, large institutional apartments....and on and on.Is there not enough business for you locally to stay in business?

I can't thank her enough as I believe Real Estate Investing will TEST You and it will try and wash you out several times before you see the true fruits of your labor.After this horrible beginning the property turned around and was actually a pretty good rental property. 

This doesn't remove the suck-factor, but it does get you out of the situation faster and lets you wash your hands of this operator.Otherwise, if there is clear mis-practice of some sort of law here it may be feasible to recover the money from them, but that is a long road most of the time and the more decisive your evidence the better.What has has your building insurance said about the damage? 

This will allow you to wash rinse repeat with the Brrrr method to accumulate properties. 

When my sewer exploded at my property all that needed to happen was wash the floors down, soak them in bleach and fix the pipe.

If you get simple control units there are almost no moving parts to break, and few ways for the tenant to break it ( unlike a washing machine).

Wash, rinse, repeat Thanks so much for any and all help 

One is a cuz that us a Pilot instructor, haven't talked with hm in years so I'm not sure what or where he is or what he is flying , pretty sure he is flying the F22 Raptor or at least he was, he might be flying a few differant planes seeing how he us a instructor?

I don't mind washing dishes by hand for a while, so at what point should I replace the dishwasher? 

I would add laundry to each individual unit with partial refund on the washing machines from my  water company.