An agent can easily set up a search criteria for you so that any duplexes that come on the market you get an automatic email. 

Its common to give discount for law reinforcement personal. even better if they can park the police car onsite. 

If you had them drafted by an attorney (probably not since it's at usurious interest rates but you never know), there could be a provision in there for what happens if the loan is deemed to be usurious (i.e. interest rate gets automatically reduced to lawful rate and excessive interest collected gets applied towards unpaid balance of principal). 

Usually you have to serve notice to them to allow them to correct the problem and then if they don’t then file for eviction.You may also want to make sure your front door is set to automatically lock when closed so if the tenant is just careless the door would at least lock on its own for your own safety.

I've fixed pretty much everything unless it was over my skill set (replacing capacitor on A/C system, for instance; landlord told me when I moved in it was okay to repaint or whatever as long as it improved the house), my neighbors love me - they've told him so; I've resodded the yard twice (FL grass sucks with a dog), had the landscape crew redo the trees in front so they look good, replanted flower beds (perennials), power washed the house every year after wet season ended, ensured the pest control worked...The BUT part ...As a sole practioning consultant (pre-IPO weakness remediation, large financial systems implementations, global audit recommendations for SEC registrants, etc.) at times during the last 3 years things have been sink or sink lower credit wise and the ID theft didn't help (apparently, I bought a car in GA and own some property in TX).

In addition to what Ned said, I recommend walking the potential renter to their car and seeing what kind of condition it's in.

It just automatically transfers the money to you each and every month after that. 

If I have to live in my car to do it, so be it lol.

In this town, people park cars in their own driveway and the curb out front.

MIP forever in that case.If you also have credit cards and car loans you will probably be better off paying those.