You can also create 2 smaller ladders out of one and set up a walking scaffold between the two for doing higher up painting or drywall work that requires more frequent lateral movement too.They are a very useful tool to have available, but have their limitations.

We have three student properties in the local "universityville", so have had a fair amount of experience renting to young applicants who frequently have no prior rental experience or an established credit history.

Needless to say, patience and a frequent checking on the home to ensure no damage due to weather is key this month.

My personal preference is to maintain our ability to borrow from banks if it is needed so we monitor our key leverage ratios and interact with bankers frequently.

If you see some negative characteristic when visiting the house, that the comp isn't going to pick up, take that into account.

I'm looking to enter the SFH rental market, and was wondering if anyone had some info on any target demographics/community characteristics that I should be using.

Under this circumstance, the Property will be fully Negative Cashflow for a long time until the Rent catches up in years to come.The lesson here is that really..... if the Property has the Characteristics of "Cashflowing," then how do you explain that it Cashflows for Buyer A but not for Buyer C?

While I'm watching property values tick upwards (bad for the frequent flipper), the casino melodrama seems to have motivated some of the formerly absentee landlords into fixing the broken windows, so to speak.

AirBnB is extremely popular and widely used here in LA, and I could get up to 4x market rent if I'm booking frequently, rather than renting the back house out for market price.

We were able to negotiate the pickup periods to be less frequent.