I plan to line up a reliable handyman for routine maintenance calls, and to have the names/numbers of reliable electricians, plumbers, hvac people for the times they're needed. 

For example, if you have a rental property in a place where temperatures routinely go below freezing in the winter, does your lease include a requirement that the tenant needs to keep the furnace / heat on and at a minimum temperature?

We also routinely host TK and PM companies here in Memphis who want to learn best practices.  

In some real estate markets (and on some types of deals), the contingency is rarely waived; in others, it is routine.

I get a kick out of the raised eyebrows of the Male investors.

We have lived rent free that whole time, currently equivalent to about $40k/yr in rent, and now have around $100k cashflow before non-routine maintenance and repairs on a rent roll of over $200k, with a net worth of around $4m.Number of doors is not everything.

It's on the job training.Yeah, what was supposed to be a 30 minute routine visit was a 5 hour experience.

I am trying to build a new morning routine that will include 30 minutes of BP.

Applying the strict rule of caveat emptor to a contract involving a house possessed by poltergeists conjures up visions of a psychic or medium routinely accompanying the structural engineers and Terminix man on an inspection of every home subject to a contract of sale.”The Stambovskys eventually got their money back and Ackley eventually sold the house despite, or maybe because of, the fact that she had to disclose her supposed ghosts.

:@Jay Hinrichs For us these would be handled just like any other hardship payment plan request--  a routine part of doing business. sounds like you have a plan and  deal with hardships  from time to time..