Seriously. These posts are always like: "bro I had to text plumbers and then pay them to fix problems. I had to like... work... like 4 days a month... texting plumbers."
That's just not how it works. If I was to call a plumber and a sheetwaller, and a painter, I would be paying $6-12k for a leak. This kills any idea of profit for this year.
What really happens is that I put on my big boy pants, I talk to the tenant, I visit the unit, I crawl under the house, I cut out the drywall, I remove and patch the plumbing, I replace the drywall, I mud the wall, and I paint the wall.
I could have it the way you suggest, pay 10% to some property manager and 1500-3000 for any call to any contractor but that means... I'd have to raise the rent, and not by a small amount.
At the end of the day I'm a housing provider, so I'd like to keep rents and vacancies low. This seems to be what tenants want too.
So yes, I'm doing the best I can, but no, my work is not encompassed by a phone call
I'm not sure how you choosing to personally save money by DIYing rather than paying a professional counts as adding value for anyone but yourself, but okay.
Or that having spent a trillion dollars, they have realised there's no way they can make that back on some coding agents and email autocomplete, and are frantically hunting for something — anything! — that might fill the gap.
This is all information the government will need to collate anyway. How much money do you think they'll save by not publishing it for others to use, exactly?
__ ¹ coincidentally what my Dad always used to say about black tar heroin.
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