Understanding their cash flow is critical.I especially like your idea of communication clauses—non-responsiveness is a huge red flag, and setting expectations upfront can save a lot of headaches later.

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.1.

I’ll definitely raise the question with them.Thanks for the response.

I wait well over a month before I hear any responses and then every single time they ask me to drop the rent.

Maybe it might be different in your market, but at least here in CA, no real estate agent is going to refer  a client slow poke big bank unless it’s specialized bank offering a specific program that caters to the needs to the borrower.  

Thank you for the response and the knowledge! 

If you save 50k per year, but it costs you 100k to acquire a rental, you're going to get 1 rental every other year which is way too slow to move the needle.

@Ashish Acharya- thank you for your response, that provides clarity.

They are just way too slow, unprofessional, and completely incompetent, and it is extremely hard to deal with them.

Quote from @Bob Stevens: Quote from @Dennis Maynard: Just glancing over some of the responses this may be understood.