Ensure you collect a proper security deposit (typically one month's rent in Florida) to cover potential damages.Your plan to increase rent next year makes sense given rising costs (taxes, insurance, and maintenance).

This shifts the conversation from opinion to facts, which is harder to dispute.Keep Emotions Out of ItNegotiations can get tense, but staying calm and professional gives you the upper hand.

Traditional deals often don’t excite investors—offering $200/month in cash flow isn’t very compelling.But with co-living, you can offer 5X the returns, making it much easier to secure funding.Now, instead of asking an investor to put up a 20% down payment for $200/month cash flow, you can pitch them a 5% down investment yielding $1,000+/month—a much more attractive deal.Why Co-Living is the FutureCo-living isn’t just another strategy—it’s a high-demand, high-cash-flow, lower-risk investment model that aligns with today’s rental market trends.

Take the emotion out of it, and just base the two applications off of facts and your requirements. 

As firefighters persist in battling the blazes, many residents are left assessing their financial and emotional losses.

Secure liability insurance to protect against lawsuits or property-related claims.

One more tip – people remember stories that trigger their emotions.

It does sound to me that a lot of that work should have come out of the tenants security deposit 

I just had tenants move out of my investment property (duplex) without paying for the last month's rent, and the damage they inflicted onto the property exceeds their security deposit amount.

How difficult or easy has it been to get tenants secured in that area?