Sometimes when a property is sold it will trigger the need for the seller to make some updates, such as with railings, covers on exterior outlets and modifications to wood burning stoves.For smoke detectors and CO detectors, we install the ones with 10 year lithium batteries.

Their costs is in the community loan, and the sales price is more or less pure profit.

We also buy pure rentals on the side.

Of course the best thing would be to be in an area where you can also install a battery so that you can charge the tenants for power, and then sell the rest back to the power company.

I think my strategy next year depending on the market will be two fold until we can buy more investments than 4.1) To try to buy some all cash houses in the 50k price range that produces pure cash.2) To flip our cheaper mortgaged houses (2 of our houses have mortgages under 80k) into houses that are more expensive and better long term assets.

I assume you're talking purely about rentals. 

This is the main reason I wanted to attend a group that meets purely for networking purposes with no costs or pitches. 

Purely numbers based though, no info on health of local economies.

I would then run the standard battery of deal analysis against it.

That $100 a month should be pure profit, not needed for repairs