Would you be interested in a way to reduce ______ cost to the effect of lowering the minimum amount of rent you can charge, that won't change how much money gets to your bank account each month?"

How did you guys decide to handle capex?

Also keep in mind that in Illinois, typically attorneys handle title clearance so they are very involved with the process. 

Unless your site/situation has unique or special circumstances that do not generally apply to similar projects, it may be difficult to successfully argue that you should be allowed to have reduced setbacks when others in similar situations can't.

I'm looking for recommendations for an honest, fairly-priced, and communicative general contractor for handling a few significant repairs.

Wouldn’t that reduce their risk as I would be on the hook for the mortgage as well? 

These properties are out of state, so I planned on having a Property Mgmt Company manage and handle the full package - manage the rebuild/contractors, market/lease/evict/etc - and I just collect a check. 

If you have done some work lining up multiple companies you may be able to leverage the competition to get something like this reduced. 90 days is a long time in the rental game.

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How would others handle this?