It needs to be signs, mailers, business cards, networking, bird dogs, driving for dollars, classified ad, online classified ad, etc, etc... every single month.

Are they a headache you don't want to deal with, or are they an added bonus to make $ off of?

I would bet had the robosigning thing not take place, you'd see the judicial states running about the same rates as the non-judicial states - meaning a fairly decent decrease year over year.I also wonder how these would look if you added short sales to the mix.

This topic has been covered ad nauseam.

Long story short, to look at the ad with a jaundiced & distant eye, I'd be suspect about "management & lawn care" at the price quoted - around here, management for a single unit would be 10% of gross rents, and they might even nick you for lease-up fees between tenants.

I added a W/D combo into a unit that had none and it more than quickly paid for itself.

Eliminate what is not working and increase doing what does work to move forward.

Yes I agree there is risk, but when the risk is virtually non existent, it's not worth even speaking about...yes, McDonalds and any restaurant can be at risk for serving HOT coffee and customer spilling such coffee on themselves...lawsuits could abound...but there are way's to virtually eliminate risk, even if a liberal judge on a mission, deciding in favor of a frivolous lawsuit, putting the hammer down on all those greedy and deceitful investors.

Especially with the added ability to filter the results by timeframe.

A year ago I ran this ad in Craigslist and the phone rang off the hook.