as long as the late fee is paid with the rent, i am fine with it.and yes, you are too soft.

No one is going to do this.Even HML require PG ,, I know when I had my HML shop I required it.. and when I have borrowed from other HML to soft money lenders I PG.. that's reality.

We then use Google Spreadsheets to track the numbers and then attach the spreadsheets to the Podio project page via soft link.

Ideally you would love to be able to do a soft credit pull and see who else has been looking at the tenant's credit report to see if other property management names show up but . . . 

After, researching my current market I think it would be difficult to flip a house, because it seems very soft, so I think Buy and Hold will work the best.

This is something that I often underestimate, because I'm soft like a marshmallow :)  Until I put pencil to paper, I'm always the "ah, hell, it's just another 20 bucks, I'll give them a break this year", but when you figure out the multiplication factor if you have multiple units, it can easily be the equivalent of one or more units. 

I'd much rather earn north of 3 or 4 but let soft expenses like depreciatiion bring me under 2 reportable.

Once we expanded to a nightclub with a DJ we began closing at 2am, at that point we'd receive a complaint from a tenant about the loud vibrating bass maybe once every other week, but the folks complaining were regulars in the business and thought it was worth one or too loud nights for the advantages of living next door to a trendy restaurant/bar/club.

If we were smart, not soft landlords we would simply say no to the request for dog on grounds that the unit is not set up to accommodate a dog in large part due to the shared yard that is to be for use by everyone (who wants to play on grass that dog just did its business even if "cleaned" up?). 

It seems more detailed than the Experian check and it is a soft pull on the applicant's credit since they verify their identify on the site.https://www.mysmartmove.com/