Or if the 2nd floor tenants are actually unreasonably noisy, send them a warning letter and then if no change, ask them to leave.That said, if you want to placate the first floor tenants you could have an "energy audit" by RISE Engineering where they look at the house especially in terms of heat loss and come up with a proposal to add insulation and other energy-saving features (and give you free LED light bulbs :).I'm not saying that insulation is the same as sound proofing at all.

I don't think 20% is at all unreasonable based on the chart.

Taxes are unreasonable, heat expenses are thru the roof, the snow is a pain in the butt and I'm looking for more opportunity.  

That's not unreasonable, if you are going to have them list it later.  

(For the 100-year floodplain it would be a 1% chance in any given year or 30% chance throughout the life of a 30-year mortgage.)HOWEVER, if it hasn't flooded before, and it's in Houston I would say it would not be unreasonable to re-sell in the future.

Are my expenses unreasonable?

Thanks Steve, I'm gonna have to look over all of this, my main concern is wiping out the HOA fees, they are being very unreasonable and I've read that in NJ they are only allowed 6months of back payments after foreclosure.

But just recently La Quinta seems unreasonably high...$140k for a crappy flip--compared to $115k just 4 months ago.

The rates are not the lowest, but certainly not unreasonable and the service is much better than lower priced companies, IMO.

It may hurt some investors, but it is not unreasonable to enforce such a law.