I've surrounded it with dirt and rocks and plants--a rock garden.

Our MF owners buy everything from small mom and pop garden style apartments to porfolio transactions.

I'm pretty much in the same boat as Nathan, I write in 3-5% and I either slap them with a 2% increase, have them pick up the gardener bill (if I'm paying for it) or leave them alone, if they are taking really good care of the property.

I just put down some stuff in a new rental, got it at Home Depot, $1.59/sq ft, water proof, went down super easy.

When you figure this out, you can decide whether investing is for you and whether you should go into flipping 1 family houses, or buying 500 unit garden apartment complexes.

I upgraded the existing boxes, split out the wiring for the third, installed a new grounding rod (wasnt one before), and moved the boxes from inside a garden apartment to the opposite side of a wall so that they were in a utility room.

You buy some supplies from home depot or have a meal with a prospective client.

I just have some free time this morning after coming in from the garden.

With a Home Depot Pro account and a commercial credit card every checkout asks for a PO#, I input a code for the property and unit.

My best advise is If you plan on doing the work I suggest you purchase materials through Home Depot and do it on a no pay for 12-24 months plan , depending what they are offering"I purchased a property 575k property, we were putting offers in on properties at 715k with no issues so I am not understanding how the numbers were tight.any suggestions would be great.