In fact if done right, an inspection is of value to me - it helps me maintain my investment.

While also maintaining the income that I currently have.

In California, it is usually standard to have specific language regarding smoke detectors due to recent legislation requiring property owners of any rental to install, maintain and test smoke alarms.Basically, smoke detectors must be operational when a tenancy is created.

Your job is to make a good profit providing a clean, safe, and well maintained housing unit.

In accepting Section 8 Tenants, you're agreeing to maintain rental prices at 80% of the market rate and be subject to regular property inspections.

By doing things the right way, great staging, great marketing, and really good photos, we have been able to maintain all 5 star reviews, which put us at the top of the list of available properties, and we stayed booked pretty much all winter.

How much cash reserve should I have for maintenance and maintaining each rental property

Across/on the street has about 3 or 4 large estates owned by Duke with sprawling lawns that will always be well maintained.

Then the guy with 100 acres has a road that runs beside the property and I thought that was a county maintained road, but it’s not; it’s his.

Let's just assume only the DP for a moment.If you put 20% down on a $100k property, you'd be out of pocket $20k...and would need to recover that cash, in the form of cash, before you started to make a profit.If you were only making 6% CoCR, and after the first year you maintained that same cash return through your cash flow per year, you would be getting back a whopping $1200/year.