Grower has a safe place to grow, and his patients are not stuck with the substandard medicine that the huge corporations are trying to pawn off as good medicine.No offense, but though I am a senior citizen and you are young, I am determined to never grow as old [stuck in the "why nots" more often than "how do we do thats"] as you.

I suppose I lean toward Realtors because they have at least gotten formal training in RE compared to the investor types who learned guru stuff and think they know what they are doing (no offense).

In California it is tenant favorable and my biggest offense is tenant screening.

Too bad they can't be thrown in jail for stealing like the rest of the criminals.

@Andrea Collatz,When a landlord use SmartMove and request a credit report and criminal search, and the landlord and tenant is in the state of Mississippi how long will it take to get the criminal search back.Joe Gore

There's a term for people who engage in illegal actions - criminal.  

—In all criminal cases, contempt cases, and other cases filed pursuant to this chapter, if a party has sold, leased, or let real estate, the title to which was not in the party when it was offered for sale, lease, or letting, or such party has maintained an office bearing signs that real estate is for sale, lease, or rental thereat, or has advertised real estate for sale, lease, or rental, generally, or describing property, the title to which was not in such party at the time, it shall be a presumption that such party was acting or attempting to act as a real estate broker, and the burden of proof shall be upon him or her to show that he or she was not acting or attempting to act as a broker or sales associate.

To my dismay, the police said I do not have probable cause for a criminal case against him by virtue of the joint venture agreement that I have with him.

-tvs https://www.tenantverification.com/  tvs was the service I'd use to run credit/criminal/eviction checks on prospective tenantsas for the others, a I would track a lot on spreadsheets or databases I keep. for estimating area rents, I wrote an script to pull all of the rent info for my area, parse it all by city/town and in some cases neighborhood name, then use the data on rent, square footage, and number of bedrooms to generate averages and watch trends in the rates for each area. 

I would also do a rental verification, employment verification, and criminal background check on the boyfriend, assuming this is part of your current tenant approval process.