Maintain your principles and relay that to your next agent or call your current agent out on the carpet and let them know, "Hey do you want to continue working together?".

Simply the cost to maintain a spread out portfolio of lots of small properties isn't very efficient.

Maintain a safe, comfortable dwelling, and take care of repairs, but DO NOT respond to tenant requests to make their home a palace!

you need more experience, start smaller like buying a bread and butter in growing neighborhood that only requires under 30k rehab while maintaining a 30% margin

Whereas if the flipping biz goes south you can fall back on rental income to maintain your lifestyle.  

Maintain the property, know your neighbors they will call you if anything is "off"On the other sideMy 2 biggest mistakes were.1.

I was wondering for checking and maintaining your credit score, is it better to sign up for Experian and Transunion and Equiafx directly, or to just go through a third party like Credit Karma that can handle them all?

Either they didn't want to maintain/fix anything, were too lazy to put sweat equity in, had other interests, or wanted the flexibility of being up and gone.

Plus, help with finding and  maintaining great deals!!!

We both live in Northern Va & the distance is too great for her to own rent & maintain it.