Unfortunately these do cost more and tend to dry out in the can, causing waste.

How big of an issue are maintenance requests from residents in terms of time, cost and resident frustration? 

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

On top of that, you'll incur legal fees and costs to prosecute the case to get a judgment.

If you are looking for more cost-effective options you can try roor.io or salesmate.io I have not used them yet but I am looking into them for alternate solutions.

You learn a lot and can cut out costs and save more for cash flow.

That's the cost of owning and managing rentals as a investor.

There is loss opportunity costs.

The higher HOA and insurance fees have made investing in condos more complicated and not look quite as appealing, but there are still condos that can be purchased and an owner should be able to cover the cost of ownership.

Have done tons of research into taking loans etc, but probably settling on getting 20% DP and 6 months worth of monthly costs (maintenance/mortgage/utilities).Started looking to my state laws and saw I need 3 years experience to even get a MN broker license and was wondering how I should go about that.Does that mean I have to sell houses or is there a way to become an employee under an existing property manager?