How much should you spend on investment property maintenance and improvements?

One of the advantages of investing in property is that you can make improvements to enhance its value and consequently your personal wealth. A disadvantage is that dwellings require ongoing maintenance, and this expense reduces an investment property’s cash flow. Minimising or avoiding maintenance costs is often a false economy. Maintenance cannot be avoided, only deferred. Problems either remain unresolved or they get worse. Either way, you will have to complete the maintenance at some stage...