A verification of employment together with a criminal check on my own at the clerk of court was all I used and had very little problems.As to charging a tenant for repairs, can be illegal so check with your state, it's a bad policy anyway since a judge will frown on such tactics...why?

From all the posts I'm finding it appears to be a new sales tactic.

Than, I will also use a tactic I call keyword concantonation and that so far has been a real powerful strategy.

The reason I omit the location information is because my Company and I workout arrangements in all 50 states (including provinces) and we find people at times limit us geographically when they see a specific place (just a marketing tactic :D ).

During 2007 - 2008, many of us have been cheated by the current management company HSC/Riverstone using dirty tactics such as raising our rent WITHOUT any notification.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the little tactics one uses to getting their websites to the top of search engines, more preferably google, since thats where "everybody" seems to look these day.

Multiple streams of income is obviously a sound tactic.

Let me know if you want some tips on how to make this tactic work for you.

This prevents the all too frequent getting ready to get ready syndrome that plagues most newbies to the point of an exhaustive failure.Once you've learned enough to get started...Don't be an idiot....GET STARTED.One last helpful tactic to further counteract over learning and winding up in the dreaded Analysis Paralysis trap:1.Once you've identified the exit strategy that you plan to implement take 10 minutes and write out everything you already know about the subject.

I myself use four tactics mainly, two were mentioned already and that was boarding up the back windows & doors and using a lot of lighting.