Quote from @Scott Tennell: What creative financing strategies have you found to be the most effective in today's real estate market, especially in terms of working with sellers or investors in challenging conditions?

Recently some tools disappeared (not mine).  

And this seems to be effective. 

If you’re considering handling tenant placement and rent collection yourself, there are tools like Zillow Rental Manager or Avail that can help streamline the process.

Regarding property management, utilizing local property managers can save you time, and using PropStream effectively for filtering properties by distress level and location will certainly help with finding stronger deals.

It may effect lease renewals.  

Maybe when you get over 5 you can start to look at management suites.VRBO and AirBNB have all the tools built in to manage.

I let them run to the end of the year as m-t-m, then send a rent raise letter, usually for $25 or $50, on or about Nov 1, effective Jan 1. 

Last week I made a post about getting a US mortgage as a US citizen who lives abroad (https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/49/topics/1219693-getti...). People responded by explaining that residential mortgage lenders ...

Besides a mouse trap, another effective way to deal with mice is a cat (if the tenant wants one and the lease allows it).I grew up on a family dairy farm and the barn had grain, which attracted mice.