If the tenant has a support animal, how to verify the validity of it?

It supports the local wolf population and other animals but not people.

Paid off, but junk and no reserves is not helpful, it will consume all your cash flow quickly for years.

There are a lot of good out-of-state markets for people who live in areas that don't support their budget, but I think there are always areas within an hour that are more investable that are overlooked.

Direct Mail is expensive, time-consuming, and doesn't have a high conversion rate based on the amount of money I'm spending as well as the amount of time I am spending sitting on Property Radar hunting for the leads. 

The problem with dividing the water bill up equally is some tenants will fight that saying other tenants are consuming more water then they are.

She was overwhelmed and needed help, so we stepped in to take care of everything for her.What made this deal different was the level of support we provided.

While it’s not required to take a snapshot of the phone call, you can keep call logs or email exchanges as backup for extra support if needed.

I have begun engaging with several agents on available properties, while at the same time, trying to put the structure in place to support my future acquisition. 

if something is just sitting on the MLS looking too good to be true... then it's too good to be true.these properties are going to have higher costs overall, be in more challenging neighborhoods, have very gnarly deferred maintenance and capex, potentially have liens, be high turnover, and require expert, highly knowledgeable, localized support to be successful. see for example this thread.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/48/topics/1137397-balti...and even at those price points, i think cash flow is fairly low to non-existent if rehabbed to a high grade, especially with DSCR debt.