Paint, plumbers, flooring, electrican all fairly easy to get and pretty wide selection....Handyman type stuff though, huge pain if the jobs not big enough. 

I am in a similar situation and put a just in case HELOC on my house for $375 and pain-free qual.

@Daniel LaCroix unfortunately after using these platforms myself I realised getting these to work for real estate is a bit of a pain.

I feel your pain @Linda Weygant!

It's a great sense of relief knowing its taken care of since I'm so far away. 

Whenever I tell the client's CPA that we do this as a complimentary service, I hear a huge sigh of relief!

Age doesn't come into the mix, unless someone plans to do rehab work themselves and it's all aches and pain :)

Seller financing just spreads the pain across the years while the note is being paid off. 1031 would avoid all of that, but he would need to identify a new property within 45 days and close the transaction within 180.

states were the homes have a lot of basements.. these can be good and or if they weep or leak can be a pain.. 3.

In my experience it is a pain to scale, but once you get to a nice amount of doors and you have the right people in place it can work very nicely with other businesses like brokerage, investing, cleaning, maintenance, contracting, etc.