Seems high, but I don't know the CDA ratesI'd expect that you're the property manager considering you live there, so that's good money to youI'd expect since you're living there you perform majority of repairs/maintenanceI assume the units are separately measured for electricity, is $145/month for one or both units?

If the money you spent is repairs or improvements and things like that. 

They typically don't make repairs unless it will somehow impact their bottom line (code violations for example). 

I suspect there are others that prefer to talk on the phone, but cold calling me would be a turn off and I rarely answer my phone if it is a number I don't already know.

Take the whole deposit for repairs if need be and then I’d be done with t and not pursue further 

.), repairs, maintenance and landscaping, costs to service the loan, etc.If your friend would become your tenant, would you be willing to raise the rent on her? 

 For a building that old I use a seperate budget for capex vs general repairs. 

Since I have new tenants moving in the following day, I wanted to get a cleaning crew through there and take care of some really minor repairs.

He sold it to us for $59k, we did about $8k in repairs and a year later it appraised for $97k.

Estimated repair to get it rent ready are between 5-10K.Because they know that I am trying to get into the real estate game, they want to help me out, but still want it to make sense for them as an exit strategy or partnership.I don't know what type of transaction would result in a win win.