In the meantime, some ideas for ways to mitigate the monthly losses would be to make capital improvements in order to raise rents quicker, look into repositioning it as a short term rental/corporate housing, collect as many fees as you can (be diligent with late fees, collect additional pet fees) and lower expenses by being as hands-on and bootstrapping as much as possible until you can start making positive cash flow on this thing: self manage, mow the lawn, minimize vacancies by screening very well, make repairs and do turnovers yourself, all the things you wouldn't be able to do when investing out of state.

I have a lead that says she wants a white picket fence put in her back yard for her pets.

I work full-time at UTC for the College of Business and have an Etsy shop where I do lots of custom watercolors of homes, pets, and weddings that is helping to fund faster growth in rentals. 

Our initial application gets their current residence, how long they've been there, landlord contact info, employer, salary, how long they've been employed there, family size/status, pets, cars (years and type), whether they've ever filed for bankruptcy, had a felony conviction, owe any outstanding balances, and other similar information.

Charge $25-$30 pet rent, per pet, two pets max, plus a security deposit for the pets too.  

I have an older child(16) who has severe anxiety and depression and has a cat as her emotional support pet, so when this lady's cat comes.to our window my daughter's cat freaks out scratching my child.

Hi,I need some advice whether hamster consider pet?

Also, you see some common asks, such as fully furnished housing and allowing pets. 

And no pets.

I have a pet clause in my lease that says "No pets, birds, or animals of any kind allowed on premises without written consent of landlord and Pet Addendum signed".When my tenants moved in, I asked them if they had pets, they said "no".