An investor friendly agent can do all sorts of helpful things, like setting you up with a search for properties or connecting you with folks who have recently done deals like the ones you want to do. 6) Consider analyzing a deal or two in your local market, just for practice, with a free use of our Rental Property Calculator (or other calculators).

Maybe it’s the commercial lender in me, but I think it’s good business practice to retain, or at the very least have access to, all notices and documents that were given to the tenant.

However, if you do your market research to determine the supply & demand and look at what other Boat & RV Storage Facility's are doing nearby, and pick a good market (Florida - the entire state is practically a boaters paradise, and for those that don't boat, well then, they RV. 

For most people DIY is NOT a good option and will probably fail at anything you are trying to accomplish.This is not legal advice, it's practical advice.

The idea is to discourage the small-landlord's practice of nonrenewing leases due to personality conflicts, whether you find the tenant likeable enough, etc.

There's got to be some that specialize in this area of law and business practices.

Doing so puts risks back onto you... unnecessarily.Your head's kind of in the right place but your intentions could be much better served practicing IBC as it was intended to be practiced.You're 10 months into this now and still haven't acted.

I have a choice to make on which lender to go with on my rental property refinance, however as I research each lender, I cannot find adequate information about their actual business practices.

I don't know if they changed their practices or not but I'm not chancing losing any of my hard earned money to them.  

Is it common practice for the property manger to not communicate about non payment of rent?