Fast forward a few years, and you'll feel like a genius with a low maintenance, leveraged, and appreciating asset.

You'll have quality tenants, minimal hands-on management, and lower potential maintenance issues.

He could use preventative maintenance on the dogs and keep his dogs  indoors and take them for walks as needed instead of letting them run in the yard.

While the math per door is roughly the same, my thought is that I will have more doors still rented while I renovate one, and the overall costs for maintenance is roughly the same. 

For example, you may reduce the maintenance and capex to 5% and then discover turnover occurs more often than you had planned.

Focus on the simple basic transactions like a dentist does with routine teeth cleaning.For all agents out there, I'm not saying there isn't a need for high end service because top agents will always be need and wanted by their clients for no other reasons than perhaps the security that comes from the feeling of paying top prices for top service. 

To do list functions and maintenance requests seem to be working fine.

But what I found ironic are:- Andy, who has been working full time in RE for 4 years, are finally going to make $50K passive annual income from rental (with a flawed net profit calculation that didn't income vacancy rate, maintenance fee); and he said after attending the $39,500 program, he paid total $80K--poor Andy didn't even make his initial investment back after four years and yet they are demonstrating him as a success case.- In fact, Andy is now a "trainer"--which seems to me, training is their stream of income, not real estate- Andy revealed that he found his deal leads through words of mouth; what's ironic is the instructor kept on selling the importance of the company's Elite Success Software and told us we can't make deal without itInstead of teaching something, they spent the whole third day (at least until 1 pm when I finally decided to leave) selling the program.

Average maintenance and capital improvement: 350/month (4-5kyr).

these days buying any free standing SFR with rents much less than 1200 a month is simply not enough Gross revenue to run the railroad.. 600.00 rent on an SFR your going to lose your rear end through cap ex and maintenance.