I'll shoot you a DM with my story and maybe I can help you get started in the right direction!

(Long story short.)

It's hard vetting the applicants and hard to turn away a sob story.

Check out Tallahassee, Phoenix, Austin, south Florida, or Knoxville, it’s a very different story.

@Linda RobertsYou can charge whatever your tenant agreed to in your lease - whether they pay it or not is another story;  or you can try and work with your tenant.Like you say - the basic goal is not to have any rental gap.  

But here's a story I love to tell.I bought a 42-Unit Apartment Complex in Chattanooga a number of years ago. 

I can have the props walked and tell you the REAL story.

Rehab to improve rent another story.

Wow Lawrence your post was so inspirational to read.

Nightmare story,I've bought many homes before but this was by far the worst ever.