My tenants have the latest Iphones, the $200/month cable tv plan, a 73" tv, new car in the garage, etc.

It gets more faces in the door.

We do it ourselves. 90% of what the inspectors look at are thing we don't care about ie. working appliances, leaking toilets, rubbing doors, etc.

It has a front door and back door but no access to the main house.

the worst I heard before that was a guy I knew in Nashville, took the front door off of his trailer in the middle of winter to get them out!

I did not introduce myself as the owner of the property when he arrived, but I did let him into the neighbors garage, where the furnace is.

There is a pool, playground and basketball ct.Specifics:$150k cash for all 32 units.Expenses are higher than usual as they include a $300 per building HOA cost for pool and landscape maintenance.Owner pays only water about $125 per building.Property tax:$1300/buildingInsurance $600Vacancy needs to be assumed highBuildings were built in 1971 so expense ratio will be above 50%.Onsite resident manager and super on site in exchange for free rent of a 2bd and 1bd.Although price per door is less than $5k the high expense ratio, low vacancy and sketch neighborhood have my ROI questionable and giving me very cold feet.

That said, just like you, we knew that no amount of hand-holding or additional training would get us out the door to actually implement these tactics in REI if we wouldn't act on what we already learned that weekend.

"Unleash Hell". 20-40 bandit signs every weeks, several cragislist ad, an email blast to my network, twitter, Facebook, put flyers in all the neighbors screen doors.

It was a very small line that ran at the very edge of my property and stop at my neighbors home next door.