My cabin is in a better location of Sugarloaf, it's walking distance to national forest, over 1k square foot home, and the lots across the street aren't developed so it feels less crowded. 

I hope to learn from all of you about real estate investing success.  My first attempt at renting my SFH resulted in bad tenants damaging my home and I had to fire my property management company.  Ouch!  I have a lot ...

I would be cautious about using "national averages" as a way to try to qualify or disqualify someone. 

Foreign nationals lose a good chuck of their payout. 

So, we obtaina full credit report and review collections, chargeoffs, age of credit accounts, active accounts, etc.to build an overall credit evaluation.FICO ScorePct of PopulationDefault Probability800 or more13.00%1.00%750-79927.00%1.00%700-74918.00%4.40%650-69915.00%8.90%600-64912.00%15.80%550-5998.00%22.50%500-5495.00%28.40%Less than 4992.00%41.00%Source: Fair Isaac CompanyPublic RecordsWe also obtain data from national databases about evictions, convictions and sex-offender histories.

That's why a lot of people on the west coast invest in states like Idaho- slightly better returns, but it's probably the most landlord friendly state in the nation. 

Despite the national single family home market reaching record values the 7 markets in the article are still valued below their 2022 peaks.

A new article came out showing Philadelphia investor saw the largest capital gains on their flip of 136% and Montgomery County seeing 78% gains (ranking 12th in the nation).

However, because we don’t have much experience with this matter, are relatively new to being landlords, and come from a different culture, we wanted to understand if there are any particular considerations we should be aware of.I heard that it is illegal to ask about religion, national origin, and other personal information when we talk with tenants, even if we don’t have any bad intentions or discriminatory purposes.

The FHA, to date, includes seven protected classes: race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, and familial status.