This allows you to own a property with very little market down turn risk other than vacancy and loss of paper value. 

Tell them that you have expended energy and hard earned money to litter the streets with your signs.

He was being discharged in his underwear and a paper gown. 

It usually helps when you show them on paper how they will usually make more money and how it can spread out their income and pay less taxes over the length of the loan. 

This applies only if your rentals run at a paper profit, but with mortgage interest and depreciation, they may not. 

As long as you have all your paper work together.

It might help to show them on paper how much more they can make and  spread out their income and have less possible income tax liability in the life of the loan. 

We are looking at using a HELOC  and have started paper work with PenFed.  

This guy has a blue collar job, on paper borderline, but the way he aced the security deposit issue convinced me that this is one of the indicators of a good tenant.That's why tenants who couldn't even come up with the month is in my book, certain sign of trouble.

A few: Sort of the same with an agent. make contact, See the property, make offer, in writing, include contingencies (sale of your house, approval of all inspections, getting appropriate funding, etc) come to possible agreement on price, have all wanted inspections done (maybe including termite, septic field, sewage lines, etc) read and understand papers possibly from the title company (when I sold mine, I used paperwork provided by the title company).