@Witty WordenIt can be a scary prospect to take a risk with a large amount of your savings.

If you're planning on utilizing a self-showing model with cameras you'll need to make sure you disclose to prospective tenants viewing the property that there are cameras on premise.At scale, we've coordinated 160,000+ on-demand/self showings with smart lockboxes over the past 5 almost 6 years with very few issues.

I usually ask prospective tenants how handy they are, and I don't want to be called coming here to change a light bulb.

Quote from @Suresh Patibandla: Have used facebook marketplace and it was helpfull and quick as i can easily get an idea of prospect tenant looking at the profile. 

Even $2-$5/day makes a big difference in my experience3) Follow up and ask engaging questions to the prospects.

I like RentSpree because the prospective tenant can upload all of their docs into the system and the system auto-emails all references to confirm.

You need to find a good GC who will do a quick walk-through on a prospective property with you.

So we only do it for vacant properties and for tenant-occupied properties, an agent always accompanies the prospectives through the home.

The new attorneys and title companies don't seem to have any creativity.I found that a long contract initially can scare a prospect. 

There is almost zero chance that you bring this issue to a head and they sign a lease with a good future prospect for the tenancy.