Marketing properties, tenant application and screening, signing leases, and rent collection are easily handled online (and better).  

Could it have been remediated easily and the landlord just sucked?

For maintenance team management, FieldAware allows technicians schedules to be prioritized and easily tracked with job "Start", "Pause", and "Completed" status reporting, and mobile GPS tracking.Currently, I use MRI X which seems to be specialized for apartment and community manage and allows for a lot of back-end modifications.

If she only wanted say 20k for it then I would easily do this deal.

One word of caution about toilets that save tenants dollars with a lower gpf, is the "plunger capability" of the flush may facilitate sewer lines to become more easily clogged over time. 

I came into this backwards.I also discovered that as an attorney I can easily obtain a real estate broker's license in NY and MA.  

These counties still have a large number of properties every month, have easy access to contractors for repairs and have diverse renter communities so the properties can be made to cash flow easily. 

Living rooms and dining rooms were huge, but bedrooms and kitchens were tiny.With that in mind a quite a bit of space to work with, we’ve decided to do a little bit of rearranging on the second floor.

Close enough to home for you to oversee easily (one-day round-trip preferred)9.

I know in my area there is a "ceiling" people don't usually "add" more to the rent price if utilities are included because they won't look at houses at the price.Think of it this way My houses rent at $1600 so does all my competition.Utilties in this area are EASILY $300-$500 plus!