I may have been listening to the podcasts too much (I'm through around half of them)I'm all for giving the current tenants a chance, but it seems like I have to just take them without knowing anything about them, no idea of how they were screened, their payment history, etc.This is just a duplex, is it a very common thing to sell an occupied unit (on the lower range, not 4plex+)?

I have a lot more confidence when I screen for tenants. 

I self manage my like 5 property portfolio. follow this link and see my pre-qual. https://form.jotform.com/221952639521155Thanks for the tip on building own prequal screening.   

What app do you recommend to screen for tenants and collect rent?

So don't buy rental but keep buying primary locally... you can even double your networth very quickly buy buying broken-home and flip it around. 

We screen first, telling tenants that we don't accept smokers, we want a 670 credit score or more, that we want them to bring verifiable gross monthly income at least 3x the monthly rental to any showing we set up, etc.

House Hacking can be broken down into three distinct phases: when buying, while living there, and after moving out.

Including utilities and furnishings doesn't change a single thing about it.Biggerpockets sells a Lease Agreement Package under "TOOLS" at the top of your screen. $100 for a lease and several other documents, written by investors and attorney approved for your state.

@A Adkisson We've been using Innago for tenant screening.

Try to find your people in different places and set up a screening system that weeds out the weak players and crybabies.