She didn't care so he went ahead and replaced it out of pocket.

Competition for the property is another issue, if you have no real competition in your price range for a 4/3/2, you can try it yourself, if there is stiff competition for that property, you'll be ahead by listing it.You can also exclude buyers known to you on your listing, allowing you to sell without a commission, if your list isn't too long.

Go ahead and ask away.

If you were to click it (go ahead, try it), you will then be notified whenever a new thread is started in the "BiggerPockets Site Questions and Announcements" forum (the forum I've placed this thread in.)

I took away from it that if I lower rents by $50/mth, I would have to increase avg tenancy from 2 years to 4 years to recoup this and come out moderately ahead.

You'll know how to identify changes in the market, and you'll be a step ahead of the game.I know that I'm a little biased, but if you want information that is up to date, start reading our forums, BiggerPockets Blog, and the other content here.

I don't have any credit, but I also will graduate debt-free, so I am that much further ahead in that sense.I started "seriously" saving and investing my money around August when I opened a Roth IRA and started putting money in it every two weeks to invest in stocks, an index fund, and recently a couple of REITs.

Or should I go ahead and order them professional?

I've always felt I could be ahead of the curve on areas to boom and I've been lucky and good at it.

That's probably why I have pretty good success with the 1 hour call ahead.