Many lessons were learned during this process, and now it's on to the next one!!

I learned that lesson a while back, the hard way.Good luck to you!

That was a lesson learned, instead of a flat rate (utils included) I'm gonna lower the rent slightly and make it include 1/3 of the utilities.

But when presented as a reward for a specific act we want to encourage, the tenant is more likely to continue doing whatever you are rewarding her for.Gift cards can be an important tool when training tenants and reinforcing good behavior (e.g. reporting a repair promptly, even when the damaged item does not impact the tenant's comfort).This is certainly not to demean tenants -- after all, everyone's been one at some point -- but we can draw many landlording lessons from the training of dogs.

We should have demanded some sort of compensation...lesson learned.

Putting myself in a buyer's shoes, I would be more likely to run, or at best, offer way less on a property that I knew was in really bad shape a few weeks before.

I have learned my lesson and should not have used such a sloppy contract on this project.

We also realized we need to spend less on rehab than we did before.

So the lesson here is if the wi-fi goes out, you may be held responsible for the outage, so write your lease or rental agreement accordingly.

Lesson learned, keep handing out Your RE Agents cards!