Agree with Jaysen.I've seen 6%-10% of gross rents plus $350 flat fee per new lease signed. 

Before showing your house, bake cookies to give it a delicious smell that everyone loves or clean surfaces and  mop floors for a fresh, clean smell.Remember, first impressions are everything.

It is $14,000--large steep roof with lifetime shingles for steep roofs, with some flat roof that will have a rubber covering. 

The coin-operated washing machine in my 4-plex required repair and I overnighted the master key to an appliance repair company in Colorado Springs, as I live 4 hours away and could not immediately be onsite.After the repair was made they mailed the master key (not a flat key, but the kind with a hollow round end) in a plain paper envelope.

A lot of the turnkey promoters do a similar thing & there is usually a flat fee involved.

Then we totally gutted it and converted it to a two-flat, relying on our credit cards to finance the renovation.

This applies even to parcels where the purchaser takes possession and clears the title in the first few years (it's not a seasoning period, it's just a flat amount of time). 

Investment Info:

Small multi-family (2-4 units) buy & hold investment in Chicago.

Purchase price: $28,000

Cash invested: $38,000

We purchased this property in 1985 directly using owner financing....

In sc you can't move them if they are built before 1976 (it's around this date) easiest way to tell is if it has a flat roof, it's a no go.

We soon learned that he had even stopped paying his flat and had completely moved in without asking the other tenants.