For a live in flip, all bets are off.

I bet the management is just as overpriced.

In short, you should focus on major electrical, plumbing, foundational, structural, or environmental factors only if you want your best bet of negotiating down the price.

Fast and cheap comes with poor workmanship. 

Avoid cities with poor num of jobs!!   

They clearly have turned their life around.The tricky one is the credit score, which is something that is becoming harder and harder to relay on as more people have debt.And besides all of this, a good management company will have other ways to screen tenants besides these extremely basic ones so really only poor managers will struggle.

I suppose that’s why I’d bet no one would hire me to be their sales director, LOL.

I would sit in eviction court and see these poor schmucks bringing an eviction proceeding against a seasoned scofflaw and they lose every time, hanging their head as they left the courtroom while the tenant looked like a Cheshire cat (minus a few teeth).  

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A lot of small mulifamily owners incorrectly assume that deferring maintenance will save them money (it doesn't in the long term)  that leads to the deterioration of buildings, also these units tend to have some of the cheapest rent in town and can be poorly run.