@Jonathan Mills For countertops, I would personally go with granite.

I also recommend to talk to the contractor in person because there's for us it's a gut feeling if we feel we can trust someGood luck.

Personally my realtor is always on the lookout for great deals for me.

So what I'm saying is just loading up your Gatling gun with money and spraying it at the problem may have little effect if the committee is hard-nosed to you personally, alcohol establishments, or just everything in general.

Take advantage of it and have your maintenance person or property manager go and check things out at your property. 

House hacking will also give you some personal "property management" experience.

I’m not really a “people person.”A PM can definitely pay for themselves just in higher rents, late fees, collection of damages beyond security deposits, and reduced vacancy.

I've used AI that uses Reditt for forum conservation and it's the best.BP has the most very insightful information and tips how to handle residential real estate and rentals, rather than using the old ways of using search engine, it would be excellente when there's AI feature where I can ask something like this "what shall I do when my rental experience this and that happened,etc,etc".... use the LLM that could give input where person that has more like, could have more accurate answer.

Have you seen it in person?

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