yup - you are likely going to need to go to a bank / relationship based for investments like this

I’ve tried searching for people who have been neighbors to their tenant but haven’t seen anything yet.If you have experience in this I’d love to hear how you handled the relationship of tenant/neighbor. 

They took the information and disappeared or claimed they did not use it.What is your advice for establishing a trusting wholesale working relationship?

In my experience within my market, Craigslist is effectively full of scam listings.

Totally doable if that sounds like something you're willing to do.If you were looking to go that route, I'd recommend getting a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software to keep track of leads and follow-ups.

Getting less every month is still generally more cost effective than dealing with a tenant that stops paying or causes damages to the property.However, if you do decide to change your selection criteria and you are worried about fair housing, the main thing is documentation.

For example, if I wrote off $20,000 of deductible expenses for my property in my personal return and my effective federal tax rate was 25%, then I would expect the see an additional $5,000 (25%) included in my tax rebate for that year.

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**Hoard Cash and Build Relationships:** With substantial equity in properties, consider cashing out now.

Hopefully you at least built some good industry relationships while going through this exercise.