So probably there's enough left over out of 10% to cover big CAPEX items that will come up over time like roof, AC condensers, hot water heaters, and so on.

I take and place his handbook in a white binder and place this as well as a copy of their lease (no one can find their lease to know what is in it) and I also add other items to the binder.

We would like this process to cause you as little disturbance as possible, to that end we request that you make the area surrounding xxx accessible to us by removing any items you have stored there until the work is complete.

In addition to redoing the hard wood floors and other items the bannister itself needs to be refinished.

You pay the association fees which is a big cost but most of the big ticket maintenance items should be paid by your association dues.

I basically went through each item and compared to quotes on redbeacon.com and also got my girlfriend to call up the renovator and pretend to put a quote in for a similar apartment and it came in roughly inline with what he quoted.Thanks.

Various property-specific items are not captured when using the GRM.

Tom Read,Your accountant is correct.You can itemize the prorated portion between when it was your residence and when it was your rental.

I have hired a full time assistant to work on my database and other office items.

I've looked into donating to Fire Dept. as a burn house but because they are are too close to a major road, this one won't fly.