My renovated rental is not getting the responses that I thought I was going to get - 3 interested people, 2 of which flaked out and the other wants me to negotiate (a dog but I do not want dogs). 

Finding deals for other real estate investors by bird dogging and wholesaling are other avenues you may want to pursue.

An easy example of this is that your tenant owns a dog know to you to bite and you did not try to have the dog removed.

He was out with his dog when he was struck by another car driven by an unlicensed driver who happened to be an undocumented immigrant and drunk at the time. 

If you are familiar with the term “Bird Dog”, a real estate agent is just a bird dog who is licensed to be one; 2) After getting your license, you’ll spend about $2,000 per year +\- to keep your license, regardless of whether or not you’ve actually made a dime, so be prepared to do something that first year to cover the cost of getting and keeping the license; 3) The average annual salary of a real estate agent is $42,000 per year according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the federal agency that tracks what different jobs pay across the country.

However, this has historically never worked out well.My husband and I used to be bleeding hearts for some of these types of "helpers", but after we discovered 1 living in one of our projects (explained why he was taking so long to finish), and 1 who hired his wife and her friend to be his grunts (not the best idea for manual labor), and 1 who brought his dogs (yes plural) to our flip project where everything was sparkly new...and then wasn't because dog slabber was the new finish....we decided that we needed to save our bleeding hearts for passion projects that didn't involve our RE business.  

Had a couple nights in like 18 months that we heard a TV, and it was a family of 4 or 5 with dogs (inherited tenants).

Living off of el Monterey burritos and hot dogs, we even canceled our honeymoon.

Living off of el Monterey burritos and hot dogs, we even canceled our honeymoon.

Typically the new owner has to honor any existing leases.I can't speak for Oklahoma, but in Texas, that dog won't hunt.