Thus, a few bumps (stress, research, cash) later, now all are solid performers.

So if I understand you correctly, if Person A enters into a contract with Person B to perform Job Z for $100 per hour and B billed A for 10 hours, but later A finds out that B only worked for 1 hour, that is legal. 

Or should I just introduce myself and leave that conversation for a later correspondence?

Three months later, she moves in her "bad boy" boyfriend.

The rest came later.

Was the 4th bedroom a later addition?

As a general rule, it's best to learn how to handle problems before they become problems. make a list of the potential problems you could face as a landlord: rent rates, marketing, collecting deposit, late rent, unpaid rent, abandoned rental, early lease termination, unauthorized pet, etc.

As a general rule, it's best to learn how to handle problems before they become problems. make a list of the potential problems you could face as a landlord: rent rates, marketing, collecting deposit, late rent, unpaid rent, abandoned rental, early lease termination, unauthorized pet, etc.

I have plenty more questions but, for a later time. 

Incidentally, a month later the insurance company providing homeowner's insurance dinged us for having the tenant have the policy in his name, claiming that the actual owner was not the tenant, but in fact, the land trust.