With no savings any little blip of reduced hours and loss of income and they are toast.

As @Mindy Jensen says, it is very possible that your bank will reduce or waive the fees if this is a rare event for you.

Than I would present them all to the landlord with the expectation that he fixes them or reduces the cost.

Time in management, repairs, damages, collections, evictions, police calls, complaints......IMO you're not really ahead as you are earning every dime you can collect!

It's not a hard rule but does put things in perspective.Older unit = maintenance and updating Those taxes are definitely going to reduce cash flow.What is the asking price?

Home Depot takes my Lowes 10 percent off coupons and I purchase reduced gift cards for both of these stores.Gail

The buyer is entering this contract of sale for the purpose of earning a reasonable short term profit by assignment. 3.

Just as an example, if your NOI is $50K every year, with a discount rate of 10% (you expect to earn 10% on your money invested), over 65 years, it would arrive at a value of roughly $500K.  

Opportunity Zones can be used to minimize tax payments or even reduce to zero.Opportunity Zones were created under the TCJA to; Allow U.S. investors to defer all 2018 capital gains for eight years if the profits are reinvested and held in an Opportunity ZoneLower the amount of capital gains taxes resulting from the sale of a capital asset by 10% or 15% if the proceeds therefrom are held for five or seven years, respectively, in an Opportunity Zone project.Provide for a full exemption from capital gains taxes on all future capital gains on the invested funds if an investment is held for ten years following investment.

There are many people who have retirement funds earning money market rates earning (can you really call it earning if they get less than 1% annual interest?)