The community is starting a counter campaign so I'm just posting here to convey that Vieques is open for business and we are emphatically NOT a major disaster area.

I'll be honest, 9 times out of 10 normal wear and tear would dent or bend the blinds throughout the year lease.

I am working with a homeowner right now, who has a SFR on his land and then a separate manufactured home on it as well, but since it has been zoned and shows on title as a 2 unit, we are financing his property.

Finally pulled the trigger on our first duplex and we are excited about that.  

We are not upset with my stepdad, plus he's now in his mid 80's - we thought it would be wrong to attempt to force him to move this late in his life.  

We are both 40, bring home about $160k and have approx. $100k liquid to invest.

You're starting off in the red, your only option to be the least in the red is to raise rents as much as possible as fast as possible.Using your numbers and some other assumptions such as starting at 900/mo rent I get a 7.24% IRR.  

We are seeking advice on how we should handle this situation.More details: The rental was not listed until several days prior to closing as our agent indicated that he didn’t want it to span too long, and it was not convenient to show the property as he had to call/text the seller each time.

Everything is finally in order and now I want to run at least 1 campaign before the big day to get the ball rolling again and possibly knock down a couple nice deals to help foot the budget :-)Anyways to the topic at hand...We have always used Yellow Letters . com to handle our marketing and so far the response has been about 2-3% - majority seem to be "tire kickers," so we are considering a little different approach.  

The main reason why is I would wear out 1 agent .