I have seen countless stories of new landlords doing a horrible job screening. 

If you go online, you can see countless testimonials of this guy being called a scammer/fraudster.

Charlie MacPherson has been a huge help including countless others!

Acknowledging the countless time this question has been asked over the years, I'll just add a couple clarifying points I don't see in the near universal recommendation around Schlage Encode locks: 1.

Instead of spending countless hours reading and learning about the intricacies of this strategy and implementing it, I would suggest putting in one extra hour of month of overtime at your job and pay down your mortgage by that amount and achieve the same overall result of shaving 2-3 years off your term.In short, the method CAN work, but not well enough to make it worthwhile.

I have had countless jobs where you get into the box of tile and find the middle one cracked right in half.

I am on countless FB groups, social media, etc and it is a slow process.

over the past 7 years I’ve had dealt with countless of bad contractors, several incidents with occupants of the neighborhood that the property is in ( once I walked in on squatters and got into a physical confrontation) , and of course the relentless pursuit of hungry investors calling me and any family member that tracing programs associates with me about wanting to buy my property all while dealing with a career/industry change and finishing college during a pandemic 😮‍💨.so here I am recent graduate ready to finally devote the majority of my focus to getting over my newbie investor hill.

My team created a graded map of all the areas in Ohio that we invest in after countless research. 

You'll end up spending countless hours trying to analyze all the numbers, and in the end you still won't know what house to buy.Our grandparents didn't have all these research tools, podcasts, books, and other resources, and they still managed to invest in real estate.