My tenants are my customers and they are treated as customers.I don't think Mike will disagree with much of the article.

A lot of humorous help in this thread, but the bit quoted here is dead-on for serious guidance.Require that all maintenance requests be in writing, and that they be sent to your office address / place of business so that the staff that you have dedicated to ensuring customer satisfaction can take care of such matters.That should limit things reported to you to the more serious issues, and that you seem to want brought to your attention anyway.Now, if she writes down the sorts of things that you mention she is happy to chat about, then your otherwise great tenant is likely going to be a long-term pain.

To be safe, I had a free energy audit done by the utility company representative.

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Rental centers have plenty of other new customers to rent them to.

I'd put your energy and resources now into building a great team (Realtor, Contractor, Property Manager, etc) since you will be most likely be investing from an outside location.Best of Luck!

Liked it at first when i had direct deposit from a job, but when i went full time again in RE I had a customer service issue and they were terrible.

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At $38k, I think I overpaid by about $10k but if I complete the purchase and rehab, I'll probably make $10-20k... but it is too much work for the time/energy involved for me as there's so many other better deals out there now.