I ask because having a network already established would help you get going and making money faster with whatever you are going to do.If not, could you stay in Iowa longer and get your start up biz going here and start investing down there with plans to move later?

DecisionLogic's IAV Service allows you to better qualify prospective tenants while making a faster and more accurate approval decision.

At best I get a money judgement against the tenant and great, then I have an IOU from a deadbeat.If tenants had to deposit rent up front to contest the unlawful detainer suit, that would make evictions an easier choice.You are right that 'giving time' to a tenant who might play games, is problematic, but when it works it is much faster and less headache than court.

What you spend in having it properly staged & enabling the buyer to visualize their future life there ie; holidays, family, etc.You will recoup two fold because you will get out of there faster & even possibly at a better asking price.As Tom, V stated; look at their portfolio first & have a simple contract.The best argument for staging is that now the potential buyers choose what they want to see based on the online photos.Wish you were on this coast, I'd make you a believer.

For the most part, I have noticed that some agents are faster responders when they get an email than when they get a call.

I also don't figure on outside properties/income supporting the deal, every property has to carry it's own weight or it doesn't end up in my portfolio.

The faster you get it done, the quicker you see results. 

The more you do the faster it will come.

I would have loved for it to happen faster, but I think this pace has been more appropriate… at least I know its biblical: “Wealth gained hastilywill dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it” (Proverbs 13:11).

Anybody claiming to close faster than those certs come through will be taking the property subject to the liens and outstanding bills due for those utilities and taxes - whether they realize it or not.