Read a book, or even a blog like this one:  Application Screening GuideIf the landlord had called the previous landlord (me) they would have immediately denied her."

While salting and chipping ice got to thinking about the returns on Self Storage. 

All of our self-storage run at basically 100% occupancy except for our most recent addition. 

Usually, the workaround stems from having previous job history (right before self employment) in the SAME LINE OF WORK.

For house flipping, consider an LLC taxed as an S-Corp to reduce self-employment taxes by taking a reasonable salary and the rest as distributions.

Screening applicants!

This means the $80K LLC profit is subject to both ordinary income tax and self-employment tax (15.3%), regardless of your high W-2 income or capital loss carryover.

I've been exploring new strategies with the BiggerPockets community, and I recently stumbled upon two completely free courses on self-directed IRA investing that changed my perspective.

Self-insurance is really no insurance.

For a purchase generally application would be to review an ID, asset statements, and LLC docs if neccesary.