I was seeing that my maintenance head was spending 5  plus hours a week at Home Depot, Lowe's and other vendors, mostly picking up the same items. 

Maintenance costs will be such that you will be continually spending and topping up your reserve maintenance funds.You will have no positive cash flow to put on your primary home.  

Monthly incentives as well as annually?

Hi, I'm trying to estimate the management fee and regular maintenance (snow plowing landscaping for a small shopping center in New Jersey

Hey Everybody,This is kind of a back-to-basics discussion here but I've seen a lot of variation in how much everyone is allocating for repairs/CapEx/both. The numbers look a LOT different depending on your assumptions...

You need to calculate what the Yield Maintenance cost would be.PM me if interested, I’d be more than happy to help strategize a plan for you.

@Shay Yehuda you will not get a 10% annual return in California with rentals and you won't get 50% flipping here either. 

Details, older house, 1910, but newly renovated, I know there's tons of variables that go into homeowners insurance but for a house valued less than 80k, $1,700 annual insurance seemed extremely high to me.

Let me know what you think.I have considered Expenses as:Vancancy, (3 units currently vacant)Cap Ex (likely to need to roofs soon, HVACs are newish, unsure of water heaters)Maintenance (assume 6% to keep up the property, will adjust after inspection)Lawn Care (currently $300/mo. assume I can keep that contract.)Taxes (Currently $3100)Insurance (not sure what to expect, guessing 1200/property)Flood Ins: Not needed in this areaThanks in advance BP community,Winn and Kaitlin Merwin

The rest is cosmetic maintenance that was never completed... old cast iron tubs with worn caulked seams, peeling and cracking tiled floors, floors that have been wet and need new sub floors, some roof truss work as well as some floor joist work where the previous owner cut two of the joists to plumb the tub.