Strong blue market community with two private Universities.

The only storm trooping I've done was blue tarp in NOLA and West Palm beach.

This is just the construction costs, with blue-prints, lawyer fees, surveys, etc., usually gets pushed up to $110/sq.

I would label that a failure.For me & my area: A = prime zone, wealthy housing, white collar and high upper middle class blue collar.

If you perform the repair personally, you have to be reasonable in charging fair market rate. eg. if it takes 1 hr of your labor for some handyman's work, $20-30/hr is reasonable, even you're probably paid much more in your own line of work.My suggestion is to first fire the PM who obviously wanted to skim some profit by inflating the repair cost while exposing you to lawsuits (remember you're in CA - a blue state and San Jose - a city with rent control).

@Mary Joe Not meaning to be a smart ***, but if you are looking for passive, low return, risk averse, long term investments, what not just invest in a few good income (dividend paying) blue chip mutual funds?

Check out the Tenant Screening at the top highlighted in Blue on this forum,,Rental Criteria is what you go on,, you set that and screen per that. 

Hello allI have a strip mall in Blue Ridge Ga that has about 11 acres behind it.

Its more of a Blue Collar community, although few do the daily commute to Chicago for work.

Investing can be like parenting in the sense that if you read something new every day and change your strategy depending on the latest expert you will get thrown back and forth like waves in the ocean.