When confronted with involuntary vacancies like rehabs, there's no sanity in volunteering to generate more red ink just based on some arbitrary policy.An oak tree is strong and beautiful, but in a high wind will frequently crack; whereas the willow being more flexible, will survive.

I knew of hail, but I didn't realize the open field behind the house is potentially the reason I had the fence blown out 2 times in 4.5 yrs...3. my PM said the same thing about watering the lawn frequently to minimize soil issue.  

The lender funding 100% of the rehab is a nice selling point and is technically true, but for most hard money lenders this means that you'll float the first draw, as the construction portion of the financing is frequently done on a reimbursement basis after an inspection for each portion of the work has been done.Hope this helps,Michael

Communicate frequently and ask questions.

I am a multi year member that has used the tools on this site frequently but haven't interacted much. 

Cozy.co and Buildium are frequently mentioned on here

They share vendor contact info frequently.

I always try to maintain my properties as frequent as possible. 

However, investors like you can and do frequently use them for both managing real estate investments and defending them from lawsuits. 

Also, I would say in my 13 yrs of owning rental (but always at a small time scale), the lower the rent and area, the more frequent the tenants turn, and the more "wear and tear" they tend to do.