We installed an alarm system in one of our Trenton rentals after the house was vacant and the pipes were stolen.

If you don't have a positive cashflow, then you may not have built the reserves to pay for these emergencies (e.g. roof leaks, AC stolen, furnace breaks down, tree falls onto tenants car, tenant trashes the place during eviction).

The tools I find best for this are PriceLabs and RankBreeze.2) Respecting Your Investment:Damage to the property, stolen items, being a good neighbor, the list goes on.

Add watermark with your phone number (I use google voice, so can turn off when rented) and company name  all your pictures, so that is in the stolen ads, too.As for where I get people - facebook is a big one, but I don't place the ad there, just let it propagate from apartments.com and from tenantcloud (paid sub).

He could have stolen it cant blame anyone without proof.

I am not the most experienced real estate investor only investing in one home in my life, however I have over 16 years in the Lease to Own Business and am currently a Regional Manager for the nations largest furniture leasing company, and deal with similar issues with customers and It has been my experience that in every case the need for something outweighs the individuals need for security and privacy I have on occasion dealt with folks that have initially refused to give a social, however when it came down to not getting the merchandise they always went ahead and gave the info.. 

We've done about 12 projects and in the past year have dealt with constant theft and vandalizing - condenser being stolen, a whole house of staging furniture being taken, the meter loop of the house  being stolen & causing a host of electrical issues, then a few days later all the wiring being cut and stolen off of the same house.  

How did my thread get stolen by advertising?

I also found out that the property was recently vandalized and all the appliances were stolen.

Goals for 2014 in specific orderFix and Flip 10+ PropertiesAcquire 1 + MultifamilyLose 40lbsSpend more time with my familyLearn to speak SpanishRead/Listen to 50 booksbuy my wife a new Diamond ring to replace her stolen engagement ringpay off my kids college loansraise 1 million in private funds to finance/partner in deals