Windows are rarely opened due to the climate, and we have almost no flying insects in the desert.All monitoring-type devices, including Ring doorbells, alarms, cameras, etc.All trip hazards: larger loose rocks or bricks.Water conditioners and RO systems.Basically, if any item does not increase the rent or decrease the time to rent, we remove it.

.❏ Checking with your property manager every quarter and asking whether he or she is seeing more people falling behind on their rent, more people unable to handle rent increases, or a decrease in tenant demand.DECREASING THE HEADACHE FACTORIf you want to make your portfolio grow, you need to be focused on finding and acquiring properties, not working out a payment plan with a struggling tenant.

We are in pivotal times where performance, planning, projections, accountability, results and networking weigh more heavily.Performance means a lot more than what it meant 2 years ago when everything was easy - in reference to high favor for sellers.The feds objective of decreasing buyer sentiment settled itself in a little over a year ago and 2025 was filled with broken promises to dropped that sentiment even lower.We are at a point where 2026 will be a very telling year.No time for lackluster evaluations and/or performances.

If what you are predicting with interest rates decreasing going forward that could play into my plan of selling with a 1031 Exchange in the beginning of 2027. 

We are trying to increase volume (and not decrease quality), I do not want good deals to pass us by because we don't have the funds on deck...

That said, for 1 of the tenants, everything went smoothly until year 3 when City Fheps decreased the voucher amount, took days/weeks to respond to my client, made incomplete payments to my client, etc.

Thank you for sharing that POV. but that is not a good option for me as I travel a lot and It will significantly decrease the quality of my life to live the burbs of texas.

I’d look for ways to increase your income: side hustles, 2nd job, start a small business, etc. and decrease spending to boost savings.

And if it doesn't, you need to either increase your income or decrease your spending. 

While we haven't yet (and probably won't) see the rates we used to have, we are reporting an average rate decrease of 6.6% YOY.