My responsibilities are maintenance and Lawn Care.

For example, if you own a number of SFHs and pay for lawn maintenance, have you ever considered purchasing/actually started a lawn maintenance business?

Lawn and/or driveway looks unkept2.

The expense itemization is missing some key items:- management - lawn care and snow removal- maintenance costs It only lists taxes insurance and utilities.

If it's listed as an A prop, but you see trucks up on cinder blocks, un-manicured lawns, peeling paint, etc, in the surrounding area, then you probably need to look elsewhere.

What about maintenance, utilities (at least when its vacant), tenant damage above security deposits, lawn care/snow removal (again, at least when you have vacancies), legal fees, accounting fees, property management (which you may do yourself and earn), or evictions.

My son bought his first home at 15 1/2 after running a lawn care business.

i'm not sure how taxes are based in your area ... in some regions taxes are based on purchase price ... so using last years amount may be an artificially low amount.

Banks are hyper conservative cause of artificial value increases in the past.

I'd say most would be helpful at the operations side, no secrets, but as to the basics, who has the best insurance policies, who does great lawn care, etc.