Ensure that all electrical fittings are up to code and replace any outdated wiring as necessary.Outdoor Space:Patio/Deck: The small deck area provides a nice outdoor space.

If the building is older major items that might need repair or replacement is the roof, HVAC systems, outdoor lighting, back flow devices, private hydrants, any fire suppressions systems like sprinklers/risers, parking lot, marque signs, awnings/canopy/overhangs. 

Climate controlled storage - though the metal to construct the individual units is pricey, thought about starting there and then constructing outdoor units once it was bringing in money. 2.

And, depending on how cold winters get where the properties are, you may have to spend extra on thick insulation so that you’re not paying a fortune for electricity by trying to keep a “hot tee cup” (water heater) hot when it’s sitting outdoors in below freezing weather. 

There is a lot of out door activities, mountains, lakes, rivers you name it.   

Once my rent went up, I began to make service calls and complaints and have them come change hallway lightbulbs and outdoor lightbulbs.And that was just for $75 increase.

Rule of thumb for us when using contractors is $1200 a fixture for plumbing (consider the water main a separate fixture, consider the water heater a separate fixture, consider outdoor spigots a half of a fixture, a boiler connection would be half a fixture).

This would be more ideal as an outdoor camera though. 

From the get go they were messy, broke/bent rules, late more times with their rent than all of our other tenants combined but we tolerated it.2 months ago, that tenant started a fire with her careless smoking (she was following the rule of outdoor smoking only) and caught the unit on fire and damaged the adjacent unit. 

MAINTENANCEMany maintenance companies are limiting their activities to outdoors.