If they are confronted with a reality that differs from theirs, they may react in a way to allow them to maintain their comfort zone and defend their reality, often by utilizing ridicule, insults, or derision to avoid further discussion and any facts emerging that threaten their position, beliefs, perception, comfort zone and feeling of authority.

The units worked fine, but in alot of cases the tenants abused them and also assumed in was a requirement for me as the landlord to maintain, which by the way wasn't.

Property values may never rise much, but for the price it will be really easy to maintain positive cash flow.

The budget was created and did Not accurately account for the end of life of the major expense, increased cost, and funding rate to maintain the property. 

How would you maintain those properties. 20 units is a significant part time job if they have been maintained.

That included no exterior maintenance, just landscaping and maintaining the community spaces. 

The house was built in the '60s and was extremely well maintained.

I'd still plan on maintaining my CA RE license and looking for properties here since I've lived in SoCal forever and know the area.Been speaking with a few realtor affiliates as well to get pointed in the best direction.

CapEx is to maintain or restore the original quality and nature of the property.What you are talking about is Capital Improvements - so assuming that your property has no deferred maintenance or life/safety issues, then the best way to determine what improvements to make is to go visit and tour the property that has the highest rent in your market and compare that to your.

In addition to getting input from the landlords on how they maintained the respective properties, we also checked out the home they were living in to see the conditions.