. 👏 You’re right with debt levels this high, a lot of folks are basically locked out of buying for the foreseeable future.

Basically, I get to help owners make money while I handle the messy stuff and I thrive on the details and the challenge of solving problems along the way.

They sneak in their boyfriends who have jobs and basically get free housing and food stamps.

What it usually means is someone has sourced a property (often off-market or under contract) and is selling the right to purchase it to another investor—basically passing along the opportunity rather than the property itself.

The issue is my expenses have gone up and I’m basically leaving around $2,200 a month on the table by not raising rents.Here’s where I’m stuck:I don’t want to lose good tenants.WA requires 60 days’ notice and we’re heading into fall/winter — worried about vacancy if they decide to move.On the other hand, I’ll eventually be retiring and need the extra income to cover expenses.So my question is — how do you all approach raising rents without pushing good tenants out?

Learning how to analyze deals is definitely step one, and BiggerPockets calculators (with Pro) are super helpful, but you can also build your own basic spreadsheets for free just to understand the numbers.

Stuff like construction, development, property management, brokerage.Thus if you spend (say) 751 hours rehab-ing a house (basically, then, in a construction business), you probably qualify for REPS.

A big one, cuz Section 8 tenants are basically caged animals, and you're the one providing the cage.

But I'm an industry insider basically talking shop. 

The basics to make it nice and rent ready, kept unit layouts the same.