One of the challenges that we all face today, I believe, is coming to know and trust people that we meet online.This is an incredibly difficult task for everyone, and is why doing your due diligence on deals and people is paramount these days.We've been brainstorming for some time how to come up with a way to help you with this task and have come up with some ideas.

To enhance the subject, what would you expect to see from your other major trades?

Also, if the roof is anywhere near end-of-life, the new buyer is going to get bids for replacing it, and his offer will reflect the cost of a very expensive roof replacement.In other words, there are no loopholes and no free lunch here -- if it's saving you costs or enhancing future revenue, you've probably paid for it in some other way and if it's costing you in terms of expense or future revenue, you're probably getting a discount somewhere else in the transaction. 

If you do go this route, I would recommend outsourcing the task to companies that specializes in bike rentals to hopefully mitigate legal issues that Bill mentioned above.  

Probaly cut my time by 80%.After its done with these I could send it to my active listings, and do a quick walk through there, make sure nothing is out of order...if you could create software  program for drone/robot  to do basic cleaning tasks that would be helpful and I would pay a premium.As im thinking about this....there are more uses, I recently reduced my time looking at houses by about 80%, by training someone to do the walk thrus, run an analysis sheet, and taking a few crucial pictures and put them on dropbox.

I'm looking for ideas to eliminate simple repair tasks with preventative maintenance. 

I can go to the library for free, and complete the task there.

I can go to the library for free, and complete the task there.

I think when you start to regulate these properties and make it even more difficult to open and operate (which is no easy task), then there really isn't going to be people who want to open one. 

from my little corner of the world If you live in a no income tax state like Texas invest there.. super high tax's in some markets retard appreciation.. not enhance it.. but if your in the landlording game most of these markets are interchangeable and its all about quality of tenant and not buying in the hood with very difficult to manage tenant base.. that is what kills you.