Which means to me that Zillow is cracking down on people hunting for arbitrage on its platform.Consider that, and other potential barriers, when assessing your marketing tools.

A bad manager can quickly turn a promising investment into a headache.Pro-formas look great on paper, but if the property isn’t managed well—poor tenant screening, long vacancies, maintenance issues, or hidden fees—those projected returns can disappear fast.

The one negative is with multiple tenants in a house is potential for conflict among each other but could be reduced by screening all of them well. 

This split my attention to the point where construction projects suffered while I also started underwriting things through rose-colored glasses which led to me drawing my HELOC to its max of 190k from a starting position of about 70 in just a few months.I also found myself not screening new tenants as well as I should have in order to get properties occupied faster to facilitate refinances that required occupancy, telling myself I had to to lock in those great rates and to pay the HELOC back off. 

To succeed, you'll need to ask a lot of questions, screen everyone very well and monitor everything.

As you guide landlords through that stressful process, you can introduce how your tenant screening and management services help prevent future issues.2.Focus on Rental Listings as a Lead Source•A highly effective way to grow your PM business is to actively market rental vacancies for landlords.

@James Dugan, Fort Worth has been known to crack down on PadSplits, but I do have several clients that are successfully operating there regardless.

Educate yourself on how to handle marketing, screening, late rent, lease violations, etc.

Try to screen for a higher quality tenant next time.

(This is the only time it is legal to screen 2 applicants at the same time here.)