I assume you're taking into consideration everything for the homes: taxes, insurance, vacancy, repair reserves, expenses (CPA, utilities, permits/fees), property management, etc.The way I have been able to purchase my investments in such a short span, is to purchase investments which need significant improvements, complete the improvements myself (I'm a contractor as my day job), rent the unit and then refinance to pull cash out.In addition to doing that, I went to friends and asked to borrow money.

Price will depend on many factors that I don't know( rot, custom sizes, etc...)

The bank customers continue with noticing much except a name change and new checks & credit/debit cards.

In fact, that is how you get enemies and have me ensure that everyone from Code Enforcement, building departments, utilities, etc that have built relationships with, knows this is how this person acts.

I always assume 6 months of holding costs (taxes, insurance, utilities, interest).

If a full tear down doesn't work because of county/city codes or something you can demo all except the utility wall.

It's often too easy to focus on getting new customers/renters versus retaining and thanking the current ones.

I've joined the BP community to utilize the educational resources.

We usually have a certified hvac guy do our furnace filters, it cost us $70 per house but then we get a rebate from the utility co. and he checks the units then also checks the house for us.

Another thing to keep in mind is what sorts of customers Penske is serving, if you're factoring it into your long-range plans.There was a link in the article that went to United Van Lines' map of its moves.