I've tried several ways of handling this, but the most successful strategy I've found is to have the tenants submit a paint swatch, and once you've approved it, you can hire painters (or paint yourself) to paint it that color, while charging the tenants for time + material.

But, if your investment makes 25%, you can swallow the high interest for a time period until you can re-fi into a conventional loan.Keep pushing! 

This past winter, my tenant contacted me about an outrageously large water bill. I immediately suspected an issue with one or more old toilets with brass innards, and my plumber confirmed that two were quietly trickli...

Commercial rates on SFRs are somewhere between conventional full doc loans and hard money. 

If so I wouldn't try to charge them as it has been working this whole time.Also sounds like you need a new AC guy.

It works fine for me because I just use it to fit my schedule but I think it would be difficult to use in a conventional sense.

What I mean is you don't want to bring all your rents up to market and transfer over to RUBS and have everyone else not charging tenants for utilities. 

My question is referring to conventional banks.

I personally chose to max my 10 loans with conventional banks at better rates before doing commercial type loans.

Big Hvac contractors charge 350 for this repair.