Again, permit costs in some areas leaves me in sticker shock when I see what others are paying.Some of the items are sort of in line with what we see but others are high enough to make me want to drive up to your area and start tackling work like this. 

That can also be a disservice to your tenants if you fall so far behind where the market rent is that then when they eventually have to move out for some reason, they have sticker shock at what they're going to have to pay somewhere else.

Day 16 (closing): I received my final HUD for closing costs with a bit of sticker shock.

Hey @Daniel Mendez I will say that a lot of folks that come here suffer from sticker shock when I tell them purchase price points across asset classes...that said, there is still a lot of room in C-class areas that are heading to C+ and on to B-class as transition grows.

My advice, get your family involved in your investing.I bet your 3 year old would love hammering signs into the ground or putting stickers on poles.  

I put a sticker from the coffee company on the canister so guests can go pick up more if they'd like.

What matters is keeping your costs down.Once you choose a color ask the paint desk at The Home Depot to print an extra sticker for future reference.

We have a cleaning lady in today but she's not shop-vaccing up construction debris and the like or standing on a ladder to clean the outsides of the casement windows, picking floor protector boards up, disposing of trash, peeling stickers off of appliances and setting up shelves and burners...Odds and ends like applying Deck Over to the deck, painting basement stairs, etc.

I was quoted for $5k+ and was in a bit of a sticker shock. 

@Matt Olson restrictions on over night guests to avoid the typical girlfriend gets a lease and then a week later her boyfriend with an eviction and felony moves in.Utility transfer fines if they do not have them transferred by move in.Limit on the number of vehicles so you don’t have a junkyard in front of your propertyLimits on storage of items outside, on decks, balconies etc.It’s kind of like all the stickers you see when you buy a ladder, every warning sticker represents something someone did and got hurt.