Rehab cost? 

In addition, targeted searches for "apartments 77008" and "greater heights apartments" have lower competition which provides a great opportunity for organic and lower cost of acquisition.

I mentioned before that these things cost money to coordinate and advertise.

And doing whatever you can to cover costs make a few bucks while you hold it is just icing.

Our Private investors will fund the remaining 10% of the purchase price, the first portion of the rehab (to be drawn later from the HML), and the holding costs.

Is leaving a $10 balance at all times a real strategy to gain a credit score or a possible reason the lender did not get any score when they did the hard inquiry? 

Sam - did you ever find a more cost effective solution to this than SaniStar?

Higher cost markets produce more equity gain for the value add.  

. $300 to install a mailbox may be completely reasonable.

However, I suspect they need to be billed with some time to pay before they could claim they were "unpaid" and a reason to evict.