For every $50 dollars per month you can save or 600 a year you can generate  above either through increasing rents or by decreasing expenses you'd generate .305% more cash on cash return ($600 annually / $196,500 = .00305)

In order to decrease problems with the property, I am thinking about doing the following things:1.  

S.W, Atlanta GA 30314 - a 7.2 acre lot; For the successive properties, there was a significant "leap of faith" - my money was small and my exposure was 75% (and decreasing) of the inital capital.

I know a professional property manager who had a tenant steal all the kitchen cabinets, sink, and the countertop when the tenant left.Part of that is due to inadequate screening by these landlords and some of it may have been unpreventable.

I wanted to see if I could get more leads.She gave me some bad news(for investors), saying that number of foreclosures has dramatically decreased this month.  

For instance 8 Cap sells for 12.5x of NOI (net operating income) so if you can increase NOI by increasing income or decreasing expenses you can increase the value and lenders will lend you based on that new value with sufficient documentation and time allowing you to pull all of your money out of the "deal," and in essence you have an "infinite," return or 0% money in the deal. - etc

The amount of private people trying to sell cars has actually decreased, at least in my area.  

But, given the same Great Deal, with a more aggressively structured loan-scheme (and perhaps a little more down) you can substantially decrease your overall interest-debt, pay-off your property faster, and the difference in your rate of equity build-up is staggering.

offer them a 10 year lease where the rent slightly decrease each year.encourage them to customize the property such as built-ins, landscape, paint colors so they grow attached.as they stay longer and longer you might feel more and more secured because they have demonstrated their reliability so you can start to return some of their security deposit...what's that car insurance company that offers the "vanishing deductable"?

New investor in San Antonio looking for someone to partner with to decrease the learning curve.