if you're gonna "manage it yourself" - it really helps to get tenants who live there reasonably long term and for the most part keep it clean.  aka white professionals. if you get niggers, spics, unemployed fat bitches, or poos... you can be sure that it's gonna be weekly "fix it" calls. also helps to actually go through everything and fix it up before the first tenant moves in. most rental properties are old nasty things just begging to have electrical, plumbing, pest, etc problems. getting that shit fixed when you have to give a tenant 72 hours notice and/or work around their schedule, and avoid messing with their stuff makes everything more of a hassle.
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