Cleaned concrete with diamond bit floor maintainer.

I, personally, favor Equity's model, although full disclosure: I am biased because my company does a good amount of business with their Seattle portfolio.What they are doing currently, is shedding their outlying, sub-urban properties and concentrating on maintaining/upgrading their high-rise, urban core buildings.

To do it right, there's a pretty substantial learning curve to getting AdWords accounts in any category optimized.

This way, given our market, we should be able to churn 4 or so deals a year while maintaining nearly the same stating capital of $100k after each re-fi.

In running my own properties I have always wanted to track building usage information (oil, electric, sewer, water) in order to further optimize performance and save on utility costs.

You have hit the ground running and you have been able maintain solid momentum.  

If you want to "guarantee" that you acquire the property you can always participate in the auction and become the highest bidder so you can maintain ownership.

Everybody should maintain at least 10% liquidity, especially in this economy.

I follow inventory and the Virginia suburbs are maintaining at about one-third of peak.

This is what I have in my lease agreement:"Tenant will be prepared for quarterly house inspections which will occur at three month intervals, and for such inspections Tenant shall have house in good clean condition, organized in such a manner that Landlord may inspect all important aspects of house, in order to maintain the health, safety, and welfare, of Tenant, and property.