To make the job flow easier, but also (mainly) to protect myself if a customer changed their mind later ( which was common).

A conventional income applicant, so to speak, could lose their job and pay you nothing. 

My recommendation is that you make it a tenant responsibility in the written lease, then send reminders every 3-6 months, depending on the schedule.

1) If you continue waiting for the "right time ”, you’ll always be waiting.2) Your current job doesn't care about you.

I have a full time job in  a totally different field and I manage 2 properties.

Just started working my first W-2 job out of college and looking to start investing ASAP.

We fee like a conservative approach will let us go through the growing pains of better understanding real estate investing without the worry of being over leveraged to add to the stress while we are both still employed full time in our careers and do not plan on quitting our jobs to go fully into real estate. 

So your not scheduling anything else after March?

Create a realistic pro forma profit and loss statement to determine if this business has the potential to pay any more than you could make working a “no risk” job. 6.

Also, focus on 2 years of job/income stability.Class D Properties:Cashflow vs Appreciation: Typically, all cashflow with little, maybe even negative, relative rent & value appreciationVacancy Est: 20%+ should be used to cover nonpayment, evictions & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores under 560 (almost 30% probability of default), little to no good tradelines, lots of collections & chargeoffs, recent evictions.