If they can't make the next rental open house, we prescreen with a few questions, if they meet those prescreen questions (min credit score, 3x income, # persons, pets) we require they confirm an hour before the showing by answering ther cell phone, we tell them up front if they don't confirm the showing we won't be meeting them.

hah thanks guys. theres no such website where i can find cell phone numbers is there?

He is one that will not put all of his eggs in one basket.  

If putting more eggs in the memphis basket makes you nervous then there are several other strong markets in the midwest with great cap rates.I hope that helps!

However, my investor partner wants to have more than one property manager, because he doesn't like having all of our eggs in one basket (especially after we tried having them all with one gal, and she flaked out ... ).Personally, I like the idea of just one ... so hopefully someone on this list - maybe John, who is going to start managing at least one of our properties - will impress enough to get the whole lot of them.Thanks for all the info!

You could buy approximately 20-30 properties and still have a good nest egg left over for emergencies.

If he actually complains he doesn't have a picture/video of that ask him why not, since everyone has cameras on their cell phones these days and if your contractor was using that much water there should have been plenty of time to get pictures/video of it.

I download them to my cell phone and listen while I drive.

Calling on the phone won't get it done to many people have cell phones and when they are in foreclosure they usually have other credit issues and are hounded by collection agencies... you can either mail and hope   or pound on doors and close deals. 

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.