Sometimes, I feel like I'm wasting time with financial projections, especially when a minor adjustment can drastically change the outcome due to compounding effects.

Common fees will include a set-up fee, a leasing fee for each turnover or a lease renewal fee, marking up maintenance, retaining late fees, and more.

I finally decided today was the day to set up a profile and have a look around :) If you're in the area and open to connecting, HMU!

You need a set of specifications and a scope of work so that the work performed can be compared to the work required by your agreement.

setting up the finances or advice on operations and methods?

. $2,500-$2,700 in rent but have a $1,900 mortgage (including current property taxes) plus $100 for insurance, plus a 10% chance of no one renting and another 10% set aside for repairs.After all that I'm in a range of breaking even or making $200 a month with this as a rental.

The LLC has to be willing to sell the property to you (or rather the entity that we set up to do the reverse exchange).

Your lender, perhaps with your help, should obtain a set of loan documents from a vetted source.

In the process, we did incur expenses for travel to our target city to view properties, inspection fees, and legal fees for setting up our LLC. 

Either set aside funds, or try to screen tenants better - or both.