If there are things set up in the back to sell, that's a bad sign.

Each tenant also signs a lease agreement for added security. 

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

We are almost done and I flew out last weekend to take a look and hoped to sign off on the project and send the final payment.

(this is called premium pricing)Keep in mind, if you refinance a house as owner occupied for the lower rates, you are signing a new 1 year occupancy agreement so you need to stay in that house 1 year post refi before you buy your next primary. 

Adding to this - any insurance agents here who can take the time to walk me through options rather than just send me a quote then harass me to sign pls message me :) 

Then there are other items that are negotiable in terms of marketing to get the place rented or at time of signing lease between the two parties.

Go to Etsy and search for "rental property tracker," and you will find hundreds of nice spreadsheets to track 10-20 rentals, usually for under $10.Software has extremely helpful features like online payments, marketing syndication (click a button, and your property is advertised on multiple sites), electronic document review/signing, maintenance tracking, and owner reports.

FL is now basically going socialist by offering state-sponsored tax-funded insurance to replace the private insurance carriers who don't want to loose money any more.Home prices are also interesting: when the first row of houses gets washed out by a storm surge, you have for sale signs pop up in the second.

signs at pawn shops in Texas.