They also will help with your tax complianceBookkeeper - Can be helpful by organizing your books and keep things tidyInsurance Agent/Broker - Mortgage companies require properties to be insured to get a mortgage.

The object is to open up a warm, non-threatening conversation.  

You shall never pour cooking grease or other damaging/obstructing objects down toilets, sinks or drains.

Regarding points, yeah is good to have, but I have enough and is not my primary objective. 

I'm talking head down, nose to the grind stone, geek out sessions where we develop in depth and thorough spreadsheet checklists and systems for data organization.

Your objective may be to come as close to breaking even as possible.

It seems married people and people with children have the biggest objections based on my interactions of talking to my friends that fit those descriptions.

He is the Director of the Center for RE Studies, a real estate research organization and President of calstatecompanies.

There are also free legal aid organizations you can turn to if it comes down to it, but hopefully you don't have to go that far.

Mark Mark,If you notice in the spreadsheet screen shot, I used ROI (instead of IRR).The calculation is:($230,000 x 5 + ($13.7M - $10M) x 30%)/$2.5M equity x 100% = 90.4% total ROI90.4%/5 yrs = 18.08% ROI/yrI used ROI so it will be easier to calculate and one can follow along using pen and paper.In real life, the cashflow actually increases over time given the organic or annual rent increases in addition to the rent increase that happens when we do the property improvements.