Hi Sam, I’ve found outsourcing common area cleaning with routine inspections works best.

 I don't make requests, I notify tenants of upcoming maintenance and they may choose to be there or not.

But sometimes, the biggest impact on your portfolio comes from the less glamorous parts of the business, like maintenance.

When working with investors, what is the most common contribution/investment/loan size? 

Maintenance is where most tenants decide whether they stay or go.

6) How are you Monitoring Maintenance Expenses?

Spending the time and taking the time and energy upfront to screen really well, meet and interview the tenants is absolutely a key to having the best chance as a "smooth" property in my experience.as a side note on "issues or problems" in general....I feel like the problems we think we will have as landlords or owners never seem to be the actual issues that come up, you can plan and prep and preventative maintenance to the cows come home, but something will come up!  

From what I’ve seen, values in Broken Bow don’t seem to rise as fast as in other markets, so I want to make sure the numbers make sense long-termI focus cash flow, not appreciation Any advice on common mistakes to avoid?

We have a $500 maintenance limit:Any work order under $500 → we handle automatically.Any work over $500 → we request owner approval.All of our vendors are licensed and insured.

Maintenance cost will continue to rise, it will continue to be hard to find reliable, fairly priced vendors and keep them, it seems like it will only get harder to hire and keep good maintenance techs also.