Port Huron has a Rental Certification department that issues certification (and fines for blight and other building violations) and without it you can't evict in the courts and can get severely fined if your tenant reports you or they find out.

I'm interested in buying an apartment complex and making a career out of it but I don't know where to start or what to research.

I did some research and I'm interested in owning small apartment complexes.

We also recognize the growing potential for rentals right now, with increasing infrastructure in west bremerton, the development of the Trails complex in Silverdale and the expansion of the bucklin hill bridge.

In that price point you are competing with the new apartment complexes which have offerings in the same price point.

Once I got into it a opportunity to be partner in a million plus apartment complex came up - it took a lot for me to say no because it looked so good on paper.

If you install, I wouldn't give access to tenants to monitor, We had outdoor cameras at a big complex I managed, people knew how to skirt them and was only the stupid ones that were actually occasionally caught, we had one in the pool area and that we used alot to monitor the swim area where it made sense.But they get wise, they rip the cameras out, or bust them up.I couldn't really see a reason for your size property,, I actually think it would make new tenants wonder why you would need them, as if the area was a WATCH ZONE..

We get into some more complex accounting and reporting with syndications and he does a great job.

That will change the reputation.If it is an apartment complex, then it will be tougher to get past the slum reputation.  

I think I will lean towards apartment complexes as my next purchase and maybe out of state as California can be quite expensive.