I am planning on simply building homes as I have great contractors and architects already on my team, but am wondering if that's the best way to go.Realistically I could put 70k into a single-family deal, and 6 months and then immediately sell for 120-150k. 

We simply do too much business for me to handle myself, so we had to hire additional agents.

Her only income is from social security and small pension, and the thought behind it is simply to use it to pay for a small condo instead of paying rent to some other person.

How does one get increases when the other party can simply say "unacceptable due to our rent reasonableness test"For the record we took over the building with the section 8 tenants already in the units.

Anytime it's vacant for me is lack of planning on my part not being able to find a good renter. 

I used to be generous with 5 stars ratings for years but recently I have given a few 3 or 4 stars for lack of communication, cheating on number of guests , moving furniture, noise, or not being clean.

You simply say to her, by written notification, that her friend must leave, permanently, and her rent is $1600. 

Another option is simply auction the property.

If you simply do a serach on statistics you will find th esame info.

I have some rentals that still have 1970s wood paneling, and I love it because when someone moves out I can simply wipe it down with Murphy’s Oil soap and I’m done.