If you have all your vendors ready to go ahead of time and ways for them to get into the home if the tenant isn’t there you should be ok. 

Hi All.

Weather became a challenge, Portland had a huge ice storm in January when all my plumbing and electrical was going in.

Enjoy the day all!

Please give any and all thoughts.

Wow @Nathan Gesner thank you so much for all this information!

This is why people don't like renting to friends/family because its human nature to mix emotion into the decision making and that makes dealing with managing the investment messy when things go sideways.

Biggest mistake I see investors/buyers in Denver or Colorado Springs make is that they get bogged down in finding the "best deal" and end up not buying at all.

Not sure if it would make sense for you specifically, would need to know a bit more about your situation and everything, some people we help that are looking to consolidate debt consider refinancing to lump all their payments together since a primary residence lending option has lower rates than some of the alternatives. 

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