Ex: if you expect a furnace to last 15 years with an 1500$ replacement cost, and yours is 10 years old when you buy the property, then you should have a total of $1500 reserved in the next 5 years.

What is the expectation for how much these services cost for landlords?

Places that you wouldn’t expect people to be underwater on their mortgages.

I am a contractor and I work with great contractors I have been thinking about building a house from the ground up and I would really love an opportunity to talk with somebody who has done this before and I’d like to know all of the costs associated with doing this and about how much I should expect to spend and how hard is it as far as planning and development permit’s etc.

  $25 is a big deal in this space and you may be overthinking the expectation of the tenant.

One thing you are missing is the expected things to do in the property before you rent and expected rent. 

This is not necessarily meant to be a deterrent but just a realistic lense so you can set up your expectations correctly. 

At lease as well as can be expected.

@Ken ChengAt first expect to travel more than you might like until you established your system when investing OOS.

Expect to have saved up a bit of downpayment for Sac.It would be nice to organize a few Bay Area BPers doing Sac investment to do an offline meetup.