The challenge is to be able to sift through it all and distinguish between the good and the bad.) 

Just for context, I am sifting through the emails and text messages by date, so I am correct with our timelines and information.

How many phone calls or emails do you have to sift through initially to prescreening to see if the applicant is viable?  

I didn't have to sift through a lot of applicants to get ones I would accept.

After filtration and sifting a dozen times to narrow down my target properties...

It can be frustrating to spend a large amount of time, effort, and money to provide a nice home and then have to sift through a mess of contacts in order to find a handful of potentials.

I'm trying to sift through some of the real estate agents now in this other deal I'm working on.  

Our brains are designed to look for what's wrong, and when something goes differently, whether it be positive or negative, we come to conclusions based on fearYou are right to see a red flag here, but don't let that take you away from your process - you designed it to sift through unqualified tenants!

I'm sifting through Publication 527 and I understand that the cost of rehab is all capitalized, even those things that would otherwise be expensed between tenants or during tenancy, such as painting or regular repairs.Is insurance in the same situation?

There are good people out there but you do have to sift a lot of dirt to find a gem, in my experience.