“Watch out. Just b/c you’re in Florida, these same policies infiltrate into red areas. No one is safe as long as there is a single Marxist in gov’t, federally or locally.”
You’re right that the landlord business is getting more difficult. If DeSantis had lost out to the gay drug user communist black guy I’m pretty sure the landlord business would already be much worse. I plan on selling the properties as they come available. That may take ten years as my present tenants are all long-termers. I’m just too old now to do the work myself and that’s the only way to make a profit. I can put on the best metal roof available for five or so thousand dollars. But it’s technically illegal as I’m a landlord. If I have it contracted, I’d pay over $20,000. Think of the number of years it takes to make up that markup. Then figure in plumbing and air conditioning repairs and I’m only losing money on every house every year. (Yet the government complains rents are unaffordable.)
Amen! Fortunately we do all the work ourselves although we are no spring chickens and we get supplies for mostly wholesale as husband has a contracting biz, mostly HVAC.