I’ve spent the last 13 years or so chasing the rabbit hole of success in the 9-5 world — successful I suppose, depending on the metrics you use to measure that sort of thing.A couple years ago, I dipped my toe back into the real estate investing world.

If your retirement utterly depends on having adequate cash flow from your properties, any downturns will cripple you.

Obviously it depends on the area and the motivation of the sellers. 

Updated internet system - great.  

-Pet rent Depending on your building you can add income by allowing pets and charging for them.

It all depends on the neighborhood, I think.  

But you can probably charge prorated rent until you find a new tenant, depending on your lease and local landlord tenant law.Focus on getting him out as soon as you can and be fair with deposit return.  

Keep in mind that that you should budget differently, depending on which "hat" you're wearing!

It depends on size of the house and area of town.

The ones we executed contracts on in the past few weeks were purchased with a construction loan that wasn't dependent on inspections, but the houses will need to appraise for the purchase price.PM me if you want to talk some more..