You just have to find enough good deals and this is where people usually fail.

Have a mason inspect the brick exterior, failing lintels or joints that need pointed could be bigger ticket items plus can allow water pentration if you are not aware of them.  

There social standards and social skills do not warrant "nice".This has been tried and failed many times with investors walking away wondering how tenants can be so irresponsible and so destructive.

We might find ourselves doing what you recommend if all else fails. 

If all else fails, call into the property and pose as a tenant and ask them what types of extra fees they charge.

Where did you totally fail and fall flat on your face? 

I'm selling a rental SFH as a FSBO. Found a buyer, whose offer was contingent on the sale of her own house. The buyer's agent tells me now that the appraiser on the sale of the buyer's own house appraised it at 28K be...

DO NOT have a combined version or you may regret it.If all else fails and you cannot find these at a document shop near you then search for a "real estate laywer" and they SHOULD be able to create these at an insane price.

If you rent and you are here 3 years before you PCS out you will drop $79k in rent, paying another Biggerpockets members mortgage :) What others failed to relay is the benefit of homeownership such as Mortgage Tax Deduction.Even if you don't turn it into a rental and end up selling when you PCS out you will save $$$.

:-P  (see link below) Home decorating fail!