Originally Posted by freezingflyboy

I have not found that to be the case at all. I have been doing small scale residential rentals for about 10 years now. I pay my manager approximately $150 per month per property plus expenses. That covers simple repairs, advertising and filling vacancies, screening tenants, maintenance during periods of vacancy and a few other minor things. After it's all said and done I net, on average, $900/mo per property so I'd hardly say that all my cashflow has been zapped. Occasionally big expenses do come up and that can put a damper on cash flow but you just have to plan and budget for those.