.- Install metal shim plates and grout to maintain full contact on beams.Photos are also included for reference.Any feedback is appreciated!

Principal protection - buying & renovating in an area that's reasonably certain of at least maintaining the price(s) you spend on purchase/renovation.2.

What will determine your success is the ability to create and maintain relationships.

This lets us know of anything that might have been band-aided often and gives a general sense of how the property has been maintained.

My ultimate goal is to passively maintain rental properties through retirement, which I understand will take a serious amount of work for decades.

For future readers....I am abandoning this after today, but maintaining a de minimis pre-marital separate property would allow the income to be characterized as "separate" and later be converted to community. 

The physical work part involves cleaning out units after people leave (and leave trash), mowing the grass, maintaining the fence and security cameras if you have them, over-locking unpaid units, conducting auctions to enforce your lien. 

This will guarantee less issues, positive reviews, and no stress in having to fix, maintain or repair the property during the busy winter Holiday season.

Sure homes are a tad cheaper in the suburbs but I now have to maintain a car or two, so car payments plus insurance, so then let’s add that cost.

We maintained regular rent deposits, have never been a day late on a payment, and we shopped banks to find the one that would work with us.