My wife and I use Avail to find, screen, and manage applicants.

If you set standards and stick with them, you'll catch shenanigans like this.The policy should be that every adult passes your screening, period.

This will show you how many furnished units are currently listed on FF, their size and monthly rate as well as the number of searches.

List all the mistakes you made, from screening to accepting late rents. 

To avoid any confusion, this is not the same thing as ( “home sharing”, or an “owner-occupied rental.”)Improvements generally need to be depreciated over 15 years, note I said generally, depending on the nature of the improvement and how long the IRS standard depreciation period is for the cost and size of expenses.Strategies depend on a number of things including, but not limited to: type of property, your material participation, how long you plan to hold it, your goals.

I use PropertyShark to find the lot size, previous/ current owners, square footage, sale history, ect... 

Perform the same task in each app to ensure a fair comparison.Load a property with pictures and details.Market that property.See what your marketing looks like from the public's perspective.Submit a fake application to see how easy the process is.Run a credit/screening report on yourself.Enter a maintenance request, assign a vendor, and attach a fake invoice.Enter charges to the tenant's ledger.Enter recurring charges and automatic late fees.Sign documents electronically.Run owner reports.After testing a few apps, one should clearly stand out.

As a screening tool, I ask for proof of funds before we bother a tenant and show the property. 

The monthly profit can be anywhere from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand dollars depending on the size, condition, and rental rate of the property. 

Every market is also extremely different from the next, so there's no one-size fits all approach.