A board member is going to ask "Have we found a location that is suitable""Yes a regional manager found a nice place on Craigslist and already talked to the owner"Heads are going to pop up and they are going to say "Send in our brokerage group to make sure it is worth the price and the terms meet our needs, they can ensure that the property belongs to who is claiming to own it, they can check for comps, they can verify city/county ordinances for traffic patterns.

Mint automatically tracks your electronic purchases and classifies them by type (food, gas, housing, etc).It seems like right now that you are trying to build a budget without knowing what your historical spending pattern looks like.  

Good exit strategy.Migration Patterns: Besides the ones I talked about above, California is exporting nearly it's entire middle class into other states.

Get him out of their if this is a pattern.    

The pattern would repeat itself: I screen carefully, find a company I like, and the first 1-2 years are great.

I admire your creative thought pattern here, ultimately this is what I was shooting with the matrix of creativity on a deal.

Unforeseen things can happen but what you're describing seems like a pattern.

Also the pattern of HOA dues - steady or steadily rising? 

Same pattern though - Rockingham is high priced whereas other areas show a cheaper value to buy ratio.

I think if I wait long enough I'll get someone but there is definitely a pattern of it taking a long time for me to find tenants.I believe my property management advertises on both Zillow and Facebook.