I do have them sync their bank accounts and credit cards to eliminate human error in entering items, and ask them to avoid putting personal expenses on those accounts.

The toothless homeowner taught me so much about humanity and character as well as what people are will to do and say to keep their house. 

Spend a day at a Habitat for Humanity building a house.7.  

Bc entropy sets in and as humans we all have a tendency to become lax with time.  

(If curious, my residential real estate investor clients from 10 years ago [you can find my 10 year old bigger pockets dot com posts :], at the time buying up 2-4 unit properties, a lot of them are now done with the 'human' tenants and want to 1031 into something that is ACTUALLY passive, so yes Starbucks comes up, thus I watch it).In my case I zoomed all the way into a specific brand (which then allows me to make very sweeping generalizations across an entire state -- but still not the entire country), I'm not suggesting you do that, but SOME of the variables need to be narrowed down, before you can gain any useful insights. 

- To actually make money investing in S8 rentals, you'll need to develop a thick skin, so you can make business decisions that often conflict with one's humanity tendencies.DM us if you'd like to discuss more.

That is because housing is a fundamental human need.

There will always be some uncontrollable variables because you’re dealing with both the human element with renters and houses are basically living creatures themselves and it’s not always possible to predict when big expenses will arise.

Be a human being first, a landlord second and an investor third. 

Yeah, were freaking morons for expecting anything different to have resulted from raising a generation of human cat's......