We responded and stated that upon inspection, if the property was in clean order, i would release half of it the next day; i explained that the back tenant is not communicating with me and will not let me enter the granny flat so I'm concerned i may need the deposit to evict her. 

Usually the contractor will communicate with the home owner and explain all these changes and get approval FIRST before it actually gets done.

Overall they have been low maintenance and any issues were able to be solved by communicating via email.If there are any other specific questions, I'd be more than happy to answer. 

On my end that means constant communication, documentation, and lots of photos. 

He is thorough and easy to communicate with.

I am a graphics designer and put together some stuff to help improve communication, transparency, and trust with my clients through it.

They have a maintenance guy that handles anything so our contact with the landlord is very limited.I would love to this property as my first investment property, however, I'm having trouble thinking about how I to be going about this.My initial thoughts are to just put out a feeler saying how much my wife and I love this area and that we eventually would like to hopefully buy some day and just politely ask that if they were ever thinking of it, to please keep us in mind.I'm having trouble figuring out how to communicate this message.

I asked him to tell me man to man all the details tonight and that I'm about open and honest communication - he still wouldnt come clean.  

Set up a payment system with a degree of separation and communicate through email.

It's totally changed my son's reading experience too -- text-to-digital-voice just doesn't communicate meaning the same way that an actual human narrator does.