So, be prepared to shell out - or argue with your insurance company about paying -  to replace every stick of that furniture.Self manage?

And I already have to replace a fence this year, which will cost around $1000. 

Do you want real estate to replace your current job, or do you want to do it on the side?

I regularly receive text, emails and paper mail, even people knocking on my door from my "utility company" and it's a dead ringer for their letterhead sometimes even, but fake nonetheless.And to be clear is it for sewer lateral (waste line) replacement or the incoming service line of clean water to your rental?

Has anyone bought a rental property that had an asbestos roof? Did you need to have it removed? If so, what does that typically cost? I’m in the upstate NY area and looking into a house that has an older asbestos roof...

I will likely give him another opportunity because I cannot get the good quality handyman when I want/need them (and his price was good).just over a month ago I hired a licensed plumber to replace a sewer run and I thought jet the line. 

All strategies can make a lot of money, but the key ingredients missing in the 1-4 family strategy that you have set out is that there is little no value add component and no large scale.

Hi Oriana, 33606 includes Davis Island, so your looking at a very high end area where 1950's and 60's bungelow's are being torn down and replaced with multi million dollar mansions.

Also, I had crappy pictures for the rooms, so I replaced the light bulbs with bright white 800 lumens flood lights and staged the rooms a little bit and took new, better pics and that seemed to help boost interest enough to get more people to come out to the open house which eventually lead to me getting the two new tenants in place.    

I guess I'm just a little insecure about finding a replacement tenant since this is my first deal.