Have her log the activity in writing and get video footage, inspect the property yourself, check for critters (like albino raccoons...they look like ghosts 😂) check for gas and water leaks, look up the history on the house just to know what the deal is, and if you have to... ask some good friends to dress in white coveralls and bring a shop vac to house to suck the ghosts out.

If you choose the applicant with the cleanest car, the nicest dressed when they met you, the best maintained current apartment, the stronger company they work for, it's one thing.

@Jeff DufordNo most tenants can barely dress themselves .I’ve toured some apartments before where the tenant not only dId a terrIble sloppy job but ruined laminate floor because they wouldn’t use the drop cloth and the paint got down in the flooring textured pattern on the planks .

You can buy affordable, rent it, break a little more than even, pray you get good tenants that stay a decade and then see how much the value of the property rose, then you can dress it up and sell it for a profit.

I like to take care my properties myself and do a face to face interview and see how she dress in order to get the feeling on how neat she is but I am living in oversea now.

Allure is ok, but for that kind of rent,  I would dress up a bit more.

In hotter markets, sellers are providing T-3 or T-6 P&Ls but caution has to be exercised as owners can be dressing up their properties.

They failed to see that our companies mainline was novelty hats, and seemed to  think we were just badly dressed men!

That is called OSB ( oriented strand board) and is mostly used for sheathing on the outside of the house under the siding. the problem with putting Spackle over it to try and hide it is that the moisture from the Spackle may get into the board and start to de-laminate it. if it is only 3'-4' high, you can dress it up with some sheets of 1/4" bead board, if it's the total wall you can cover it with 1/4" drywall. look at it this way, there is no way a tenant will put a hole through those walls after you cover it, i would consider having that a plus.

I've been using these, they're relatively cheap, good quality and dress up even mediocre cabinetry well.cabinet pulls