Unfortunately you need to have volume in order to attract qualified individuals to work in-house.In the end my advice would be to pay for a good contractor and add time for them to fit you in their schedule.

While i have no experience with cockroaches, i have unfortunately dealt with bedbugs twice in the same unit, years apart with different tenants.All that being said, the units i own are generally 1 per building(4 units per building) so it is extremely common for a problem to be coming from a neighboring unit.

I had an opportunity to puck up a few more units last year but unfortunately timing really didn't work out for me as far as everything else I had going on in my life.

If you have a STNL and a credit tenant, you still get paid until the lease expires under most circumstances.

The property sits right outside of University of Delaware so we were shooting for the $700 -$800 per room figure that the college housing is going for, Unfortunately UD is not reopening until next fall so we may have to rent to single families around $2000 for the time being.

Unfortunately, we've worked with 5 different property managers in the 6-7 years we've held these properties and every time we have a vacancy, our tab for cleaning and preparing has been overpriced.

Unfortunately, they are in South Dakota and they don't see the moving parts and how real estate hasn't slowed down.

Some folks may recommend jumping in now and other may try holding out a little longer to take advantage of a slower economy, but these are different circumstances that no one has ever experienced.  

I would like to start investing in rental properties while I still live here but can't see how it would be viable with such expensive housing prices.Sometimes you are forced to look out of state unfortunately.

I can't imagine a landlord, in these circumstances, would be unreasonable with a tenant who is facing hardship and risk losing out on cash flow versus working something out.