@Shane H. im curious, how do your tenants react to the extra charge of not going electronic?

I want to start using an electronic rental payment service to make it easier for myself and my tenants. 

Additionally, when you install the machines, use the braided steel supply lines and put a coupling on the washer drain hose so it fastens to your stand-pipe.Our experience with mid-grade, basic HE machines is that they either fail immediately (manufacturing defect) when they are under warranty or well beyond 5-years (after they have been written off) at which point, if the repair is anything but minor, we might well opt to replace them.

What would you know, after a 30 minute conversation we were ready to sign a purchase agreement and both agree on what the breakdown in communication was… I’ll let you guess what that breakdown was.This is the part where our agent lost me completely, we got the electronic purchase agreement from the builder’s agent and as I started to read the agreement I noticed our agent already signed it which seemed very strange.

Yesterday I had a lady contacting me saying she would take nothing less than half a million for a manufactured home that is currently renting for 1,100$.  

The dangers of lead-based paint had begun to circulate by the late 1800s and early 1900s, so some manufacturers stopped using lead in paint earlier than others.With an internet search, I found this brief chronological history of the use of lead-based paint in the United States:* Use of white lead began in the Colonial times and ultimately peaked in 1922.* In 1951, Baltimore banned the use of lead pigment in interior paint in Baltimore housing – the first such restriction in the country.* In 1955, the industry, working with public health officials and organizations, adopted a voluntary national standard to prohibit, in effect, the use of lead pigments in interior residential paints.* Through the 1950s and 1960s, the use of exterior lead-based paint declined significantly, and ended by the early 1970s.* In 1971, the federal Lead Poisoning Prevention Act was passed.* In 1978, the federal government banned consumer uses of lead paint.

Everyone is buying the low-flow flush toilets now as a landlord to save on water.If the tenant pays water separately metered then you can leave the old ones in that use more.Some issues with the water saver toilets is that tenants hate them.They have to flush multiple times sometimes.I have found the key with toilets is to not buy the most expensive and not buy the least expensive.I do not like the floating ball valve assemblies.They can get stuck and keep the water running versus the newer kits.Also look for a toilet with a larger throat opening that goes into the sewer pipe.This will keep blockages from happening as that is where things get stuck the most before hitting the sewer line.Also pay special attention when you look at a model of a toilet on the display feel INSIDE of the toilet bowl when purchasing.Some manufacturers gloss coat the outside of the toilet but then use matte coating on the inside of the bowl.You want it nice and smooth on the inside of the bowl.This helps waste and paper slide down the bowl and through the throat into the sewer line without sticking.You can also stipulate in the lease that only toilet paper is to be put in the toilet.Anything else found with a blockage the tenant will be responsible for the repair and the damage.You can even have them sign an acknowledgement form on move in.

You could always write the book and give it away in electronic format or sell it and give the proceeds to charity.

The manufacturer recommends taking it into to get serviced as it's under warranty, but I really don't want to deal with that hassle and would much prefer to just take back to Home Depot.

Get a good scanner and file it electronically.