in my opinion, if you've had plenty of people look, and it hasn't rented, then the rent is too high...maybe give concessions, or offer a discounted rent for the first few months...other than that, your only option is to wait ..personally i'd rather reduce the rent for a few months and lose a few hundred bucks, then lose another month to vacancy, plus have the house empty and vulnerable to theft and vandalism

Next, keep someone there if you can . even if it is for a couple hundred per month, provided the home is livable.

I think it was worth the few hundred bucks for the membership.

A few hundred dollars maybe.Here in Indiana, about 70% of purchases are done with FHA financing, so turning away FHA buyers would mean turning away 70% of your prospective purchasers.

If you have to pay for peace of mind it's better than being dead.In your situation I would pay an real estate attorney a few hundred to look over the lease for a possible out.No legal advice

I have been away on a working holiday for the last two weeks.I have had some homes that only needed a few hundred dollars in repairs all the way up to 6-7 thousand dollars.

It may just be that I have a relatively small amount of cash allocated to real estate (a few hundred thousand), so generating these returns aren't too difficult.As you pointed out above, the larger your portfolio grows, the more difficult it becomes to maintain these types of returns, and I certainly don't expect it to last more than a couple more years before we have to figure out additional strategies and allocations.

It really just depends on who you are.My clients do not want a real estate license.They do want to invest in commercial real estate.The best use of their time is their primary field of expertise (lawyer,doctor,developer,tax accountant,business owner).So for them it's important not what they pay me but that I am competent and help them reach their goals.I am talking about individuals that make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with their primary work and are very busy.If you are an investor that can do it all yourself and want to save a little nut on commission then it might be worth it to you.

Yes Jon, I'm one hundred percent positive that you are right!

I have access to it and run across hundreds of homes in my area that are under 10k and look to be great investment properties.