Usually the in-house crews are significantly cheaper (and just as good) than contractors.

I can help, and if worst comes to worst, I can evict them quicker, easier, and cheaper than you paying a lawyer."

Additionally, raising rent, shopping around for cheaper, but appropriate insurance as well as potentially protesting your tax assessed value could help.

On the flip side, it can be cheaper to the consumer to pay a fee, rather than try to roll a price increase into the rental rate.

@Ford Smithyou're in California, I'm in Los Angeles for the most expensive places to live in the United StatesYou can either cut expenses or make more money or bothThere are places to live in United States were housing is a lot cheaper than here, I'm thinking like Oklahoma City OklahomaThink about moving and living cheaper and making the same moneyThink about getting your real estate license and knowing everything there is to know about real estate sales and real estate property management

Try to find out which ones you can do cheaper yourself prior to making your selections to avoid paying 50% or event 100% more than you should! 

Yeah from what I've seen, multi family homes are cheaper, and would require double maintenance, but i think if they bring in almost double the rent, I don't know that I'd ever worry about selling them. 

If it is on there good, it really might be easier and cheaper to just tear out and redrywall.

In this case, that would be cheaper than an attorney. 

A 30 year mortgage would cost a couple thousand in closing costs, but the payments would be at least $300/month cheaper for the first 10 years unless I'm missing something.