Any unexpected cost could make a significant impact on the return.

If one of your tenants stream movies all day long, you could run out of data and impact all others.The other potential issue is the need of printing. 

Paid $120,000 and spent $1750 for environmental cleanup.

Something that SFDs just won't have.Marketability; Multis will be harder to sell and the availability to money will impact pricing more than in SFDs.

There are some variables that can increase or decrease any potential result that you might have.The message is going to be important.How you write the message can have an impact.How the message is packaged will have an impact as well.Have you talked with some others that do direct mailings for any insights?

A longer amortization period has the same general impact on the payment as a lower interest rate and thus allows one to keep the interest rate at market and avoid the argument for an imputed tax.Originally posted by Financexaminer:This is highschool finance!

I don't know of any apartment owner who divides the trash bill up between tenants.Of the one water meter for a duplex, having just 2 units will not impact you that much, but on a larger scale dealing with apartment buildings of substantial units, it could hurt you.

Or do you do more what I plan to, take the cash month to month and those ugly years, take the hit... just ensure you have access to a proper amount of equity or credit to be able to pay for it when it does happen...The first is a bit more conservative, essentially your less leveraged as you're holding cash reserves... the second is more aggressive as you're likely taking the extra cash and further investing it.What are you guys doing, especially you with only a few properties that would be more impacted by the need for a new $5,000 roof.

Assume the same risk is involved, maybe not the same risks, but risks with similar impact.

If there is a downside to 7a loans, it is the fact that they come with adjustable rates.While don't think you'll have to worry about prime going high enough to impact your loan, you "can" refinance to a fixed loan if need be.You mentioned 4 years in the your response, but you should only have a 3 year prepayment penalty (if that's what you were referring to) and the percentage reduces each year (5/3/1) making it pretty painless to refinance by year 2 or 3.