The good ones put their owners and tenants first and have an a+ maintenance team to help secure and maintain their owners investments.

@Stephen Nicholson - excellent advice hereBe a disciplined investor by sticking to the numbers that make financial sense for your target level of profitability and always maintain walk away power in any deal.Sometimes these deals will comeback to you but chances are they won't as the seller has an unrealistic view of his asset's worth, is no hurry to sell and someone with less experience than you will come along and pay him over market price at some point.Rick

This is because I really like the idea of slow and steady wins the race and, I realize that I need to go a little bit slower in order to become steadier and to maintain my consistency long term. 

Whats easier to maintain long run?

It's a small tight knit community so you have to conduct your business carefully to maintain relationships. 

Ventilation is necessary to maintain proper airflow through attic area.

Let them know that paying rent and maintaining the property MUST be their first priority -- you do not "work with" tenants. 

That being said some of the homes have been well maintained.

Mullen said Progress was betting that much of the middle class will have to rent if it wants to maintain the suburban lifestyle of the past.

@Jim Stanley, I don't know much about solar panels, but I feel like that would be expensive to maintain?