Typically, maintenance & repair expenses may eat up the couple of thousand you earn annually in the early years. 

Sounds like they are in a pretty good situation unless taxes and insurance costs are going to eat heavily into cash flow or the properties all need cap x improvements and they would rather sell than fix them up.I would have buyers for these if that is what they are looking for.

Everybody has to eat so I'm not going to go into the ethics of it but you have to go into this eyes wide open that public adjusting like this is not, in my opinion, a job to use to get knowledge and experience in property management.  

After all, we all gotta eat.

You ask - honey, what can I eat right now?

And this has worked and I gave the credit.Kind of "have your cake and eat it too".....

The transaction costs of buying and selling a home (particularly the sell side) really eats into the margins.

It's 2024, Rates have been eating at investors. 99% of listings have tenants underpaying rent by 50%.

Just make sure the cost of building and selling won't eat up too much of your potential profit.

So eat life may vary.