Carefully understand the rules of your local housing authority.  

As long as the maintenance was taken care of within a reasonable time frame and complied with landlord laws then you should never lower the rent or take partial payments.

Take care!

Account Closed  now to be like Fox news fair and balancedone does have to be mindful that banks can change policies.. so you do need in my mind a healthy balance of private capital or your own and banks or other lenders as well.07 to 09 saw banking FREEEZE for us in the business I had almost 30 million in various credit lines out and they all got called Save one.. my core bank kept my 6 million working with out it I would have not made it.. the rest did not care and I had written into my loan terms that if they called these facilities I had 36 months to pay them off and I needed every bit of that time to do it.. but I can proudly say I did not default on a one and paid it all back and the agreed on interest. 

Does not do the best lawn care but its nice to have someone cut it.

These are usually folks who want a more "hands on" interaction with me and the asset from selection thru disposition.

Honestly I wouldn’t care what the bank will take and neither should you.

Private money, hard lenders, or banks I don't really care where I go but like to use lenders who keep the ball rolling with me and even help with structure of the lending.

Unfortunately, we are purchasing a property in a new area with a new agent who does not seem to care whether we close this month on this property or in the future on another property, so we are not getting a lot of information from her.

There is a BIG difference between urgent and emergency.... but tenants aren't paying the bill, so they see everything as an emergencySo unless the unit will be damaged.... or you have to vacate the unit due to your safety or habitability, don't call an emergency contractor...it can be taken care of the next day or within a few days AFTER I approve it