You should check if the bank feeds work with your bank otherwise, it's a deal breaker unless you don't mind manually doing the data entry.

Like in my mind that is truly the last thing on earth that I could imagine to mess up my real estate investment plans with some idiot with a stolen car crashing into your property and escaping and I imagine how you felt when you found out.  

From a $ perspective you get the same amount of appreciation, depreciation, loan pay down, but here you have cashflow and if if a tenant moves out, you are only 50% vacant instead of 100% vacant.- Generally the same logic applies as above.  

That experience taught me the importance of leaning on local expertise, even if it feels like an unnecessary expense at first.One strategy I’ve seen work occasionally is offering the tenant a “cash for keys” deal, where you pay them a small amount to vacate voluntarily.

After 1-2 weeks they told me the tenants stopped paying rent after the first month.

Some of our borrowers are focusing on 4 bed 2 bath section 8 to push those numbers even higher.I pay close attention to 4-bedroom homes in Memphis for S-8 clients 

That could impact his ability to pay rent.

My name is Jaimie Uland, and I’m excited to connect with like-minded real estate investors here.

We have trades we use on jobs and know what they will charge which is often considerably less than what Joe Homeowner would pay for the same job . . . the trades know we will be using them again and again. 

There they have a much higher likelihood to get tenants who will pay not to mention respect the property and make things easier for everyone.