What's the custom for allowing, not allowing, charging an extra deposit for, or any special considerations, (or none) for the issue of smoking in your apartments?

Appreciation is gravy and you will get that with improved operations and increasing the income.

It’s a small town, so values probably have not increased as rapidly as metro areas.

Leveraging will always increase your returns, in my opinion.

I’m pretty sure no such mutual fund that has increased 1300% in 18 years exist.

but with minimum wages increasing and cost of production increasing, there will be a point where machines will cost less than human, and when that point hits... then yeah all the low income class jobs are going to get replaced by machines. 

Or a savy investor might see an opportunity to increase rents or reduce expense to increase the NOI. 

Both of my buildings didn't "seem" to have foundation issues, but 100 years of ever increasing weight (we have a lot more stuff now) can affect the support.

Also get "gazelle intense" and pay off the credit card debt, which associated increase in FICO will result in lower interest rates and better monthly payments on your future acquisitions. 7.

That should reduce your vacancies and increase your rate of return.