At some point you will be more on equal footing and you might learn a lot from that person.

If this is the only way you can get your foot in the door to rentals Ve'Ron, it might be worth it to you.

I use $1,000 per year for maintenance and $.67 per square foot for cap ex. 

I have had quiet the time still finding qualified painters that weren't going for $3 to $4/square foot (15k to 17k on 5000 home)  While I keep ending up doing all the work myself (and all the fun permits to go with half of them), it would be nice to find a few painters that ...1.

Must've blown them out with gusto.Our grossest story, though, is having to write a letter to a tenant asking him to stop vomiting out of his front door each morning, we were getting neighbor complaints.Or finding a bedroom that had dried out dog poo all over it - a 10x10 foot litter box.  

and there is apparently chat about a footing/foundation issue which could be a dealbreaker.

Account Closed take profit when you can no one can fault you with a profit.There are only so many Palo Alto California's on the planet.If you think RE can go to 1,000 a foot for single family then you might wantto hold..

They described how horrible it became watching the families they shared the buildings with, filling kiddie pools, having water balloon fights and hearing their water run non-stop for bathes and showers.Their neighbors had no incentive to keep the water bill down because they always had some poor stooge, working long hours, never around, who had to foot their bill.And believe me at least one of them tried to reason with the nitwit landlord... but to no avail. 

@Trevor K.I'd actually disagree its a joist issue and say it's probably a footing issue if it's over a crawl$1-5K seems very light to me fix.

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