This assumes that you don't spend 3 months trying to evict someone for not paying and having a meth lab in your house.

What if someone decides to do a meth lab in your best unit and it becomes unrentable for a while?

I believe we will still move to the Ft Worth area eventually, but now I have another ~9 months to keep searching (9 months because her job offer is only that duration as she just received her Masters in Speech Pathology and has to work this supervised position before she can move on to other SLP jobs).Given this extension of time, what would you advise someone in my position to do over the next 9 or so months to set myself up for success when the time is up?

If the applicants are straw applicants or non-existent then the remaining tenants might not meet the income requirement and/or you could end up with a situation where a straw applicant has enabled criminal elements to occupy the unit.Sally, Joe and Eric apply for your unit, they pass and you rent to them.Later you find out:Sally and Joe moved in with Bob.Eric isn't a real person, he is a made up person, a stole identity basically, provided to you to pass the application screening.andYou find out that Bob is setting up a meth lab in the basement of your unit.I don't think that's ok as long as the checks clear.

One of our biggest is held once a month at the Lucky Lab near Multnomah Village.

The time must be supervised and logged.Then pass a 75 hour basic appraisal exam.Then you can become a licensed appraiser and allowed to do basic appraisals.

You are supervising your PM and if you don't know what their job is like or what the processes for screening and evicting tenants, getting rent increases, etc, how can you push your PM to do the same?

Sounds like that meth lab rehab paid off!

We ran a PM devision for 2 years at a loss...we have had our units in someone elses hands for 1 year, and that has not been perfect either.If I was buying close to 100 units at a time I would plan to hire an onsite PM, and have them work under my supervision...If you buy less than 80 units it becomes more difficult to have full time on site staff.

I think the first refers to Prop 36, the clean-up/seizure of a drug lab http://www.capcentral.org/high_court/arc_2005_cal.aspxThe second one looks like public storage facilities and the third involves settling an estate.I would check into the third and probably avoid the first....it will be tied up in legal proceedings for a while.