Like I said, I believe rating rentals is subjective and relative to where you are, where and how you were raised, and the people are comfortable around.

What about raise rent maybe $100 now add $50 to the security deposit and leave room to increase rent for later?

If you are in the unfortunate position of having virtually all of your total IRA assets in real estate, you will have to sell (at least some of) the real estate in order to raise the necessary cash to make the distribution.

I'm born-n-raised in Oregon but still had to google Selma to see where it is.

Start with a warm letter of introduction and don't raise the rents immediately unless you want the tenants out.

Hey john i was born and raised there in manhattan, even went to K-state for a few years.

I plan to find the properties, actively manage the properties through our management group and use the fund to purchase and rehab the houses.I plan to raise $1 million per JV.

I want to raise my own kids and not have a nanny.

Now, aside from the dirty water, and the trash down there, this guy decided to really destroy the pool.This is South Florida, so we have a very high water table, and in the summer when it rains a lot, the water table is so high, that if you drain all the water from the pool, the hydrostatic pressure of the water in the surrounding ground will actually push the concrete pool's shell out of the ground.That's why you see the entire pool is now completely broken off and raised off the deck.I thought some of you might find that amusing, or not amusing.You can imagine what the inside of the house look like.

If its not on the market yet, just raise your list rent price by 5-10% and see what happens?