This is often taught as part of spray and pray marketing.

Cleaning supplies/salt minor repairs 1000 a year.  

I have one tenant keep reporting bed bugs, approximately every 2 months.The first time, we sent pest control company, the company found there are few bed bugs in the sofa and did the spray.

Hi! I'm really glad I found this site! I am just getting started in the real estate investing side of RE. I'm currently working toward my RE license here, and am taking steps to get where I want to be, just like every...

@Ben SmithI’m in the business so take this with a grain of salt. 

., heated salt pool, and it's only $125 a night.

I'm looking through the spreadsheet and I think it's worth mentioning that it's possible to spend a lot less for certain material items as well as labor in many cases depending on how frugal you want to beinterior door with hardware: $5-10 used, $30-50 newwindow: $10-50 used, $100-200 newlight fixtures: $1-10 used, 6 pack flushmount at lowes for $44fan fixture: $24-60 new water heater: $250 newtoilet: $50-90 newsink: $40-200 new faucet: $10-30 newtile: 0.49-2/sqft newappliance: $20-200 each appliance usedmy last rehab was:60 elec permit cost + 300 elec repair (tenant destroyed meter box causing house to be condemned)1600 material + 1500 labor flooring for 1400 sqft500 material + 600 labor spray paint whole house semigloss and patch some large holes$30 for 4 interior doors which I put in$10 mirror for bathroom$100 paint porch, stairs, and stair rail brown$50 fridge, $10 burner plates for stoveI also spent at least a few hundred with help on cleaning and taking out the trash and some other expenses here and there which altogether added up to about 5 thousand.I spent maybe 30 hours over there in total on the weekends.

I live in Florida and own 6 properties in Salt Lake City.

The following is an oversimplification, so take it with a grain of salt, but there's 2 kinds of investment markets:1) cashflow market - markets like the midwest and south where you can buy into some decent initial cashflow and the 1% rule could still be applicable, but it more than likely won't appreciate too much over time. 2)appreciation/equity markets - The Denver metro falls into this category.

This is bagging and taping.Then spray the ceiling and the floor trim.