If your fees are notably higher, you may be inadvertently deterring reliable tenants.Cleaning Protocol: It’s a good idea to also look into pet-specific cleaning materials and routines to maintain the units effectively.

Even just shifting those routine tasks can make it much easier to stay active on acquisitions and not lose momentum.Curious what others here are doing to keep their pipeline full without burning out.— Yashira

Expenses include things like management fees, routine maintenance , insurance, property taxes, utilities (if paid by property owner), legal/accounting, and vacancy.

Set aside time regularly, make it part of your routine, and focus more on doing than overthinking.

Are they doing routine quarterly inspections? 

Petersburg, FLHey Gretchen, thanks for sharing those numbers—you're right to raise an eyebrow.

Quote from @Jake Yuskaitis: hard money cannot lend on primaries. it is illegal. i do have a credit repair contact i can put you in touch with its NOT illegal  there are lenders (HML) in CA that do it routinely.. what you have to do is be properly licensed and you have to run their ability to repay .. 99% of HML its too much work for such a little market share..

I expect it to continue its one step back, two steps forward routine, edging slowly down, for the rest of 2025.

Spoiler alert: These are a routine occurrence with emotional 18-22 year olds.Thats no Joke... 

Note the load bearing wall did not go through the attic spaceI was adding an eyebrow porch (there had been one originally but long ago (the house is over 100 years old) had been removed).