Ensure that your homes are clean, have fresh paint jobs, no funny smells, and have electricity/heat.

Never look at just one expense category, like taxes, to determine if it is a good idea to keep the asset.Always look at the overall underwriting to see if the investment would make sense if you were starting with a fresh 80% LTV loan. 

My guess is something like the swiss national bank, along with their 80 billion in us stock purchases, went shopping for some real estate with their freshly printed francs.

After moving back here to GA I am convinced it is time for me to join the ranks of the investors.I am very knowledgeable on many things real estate but completely fresh to the idea of investing.

I've talked to a few people about doing rentals and most of their responses are about the same "start of with a cheaper small house, rent it out and gradually work towards getting more lots and then work bigger towards dupleces and so on" I need direction for learning tools I really am starting fresh, I don't have knowledge really at all on market what factors that are in play when going to buy a house or renting it out or anything like that.

Not sure how to offer "fresh" items like milk or bakery muffins if I can't have them in a supply closet for the maids to put out after a cleaning...I am putting a Keurig in and planning to offer a variety of coffee, tea, and hot cocoa pods and some shelf-stable half and half or creamers.

To them, it might be more about you denying them their essential humanity, treating them like troglodytes fresh from a life underground.

Hi, I am buying a new rental property out of state and will be relying heavily on a property management to run daily operations for me.There are tenants already in the property and a property manager in place that the seller is currently using.Should I just continue with the same management company (considering the tenants are familiar with them) or use my agent as the new property manager (since he knows the property well and I have worked with him closely for a month now) or look for a completely fresh property management .Can someone please help me understand what’s the best thing to go with??

Then sell it and start fresh.

@Eddie SorrellIf those market rent #'s are correct, I would clearly explain this to them, and then recommend that you offer to do some minor upgrades to the units for those existing tenants.Put up a fresh coat of paint on the walls, pay for carpet cleaning (if there are carpets), do minimal upgrades to the lighting fixtures, and maybe even throwing in some USB outlets -all relatively inexpensive upgrades to your units that will help force appreciate the rent, even if they decide not to stay.