This saves me a lot of communication time as I only need to respond to inquiries with cut and paste responses with the open house day/time and I only need to show the rental twice a week. 7.

Geez, there’s so much opinion, emotions, beliefs, and personal experience in this thread.  

Just communicate your decision with empathy.

I find new investors often struggle with keeping emotions out of the deal.

In fact, its become quite apparent that number crunching ranks rather low on the necessary skills for real estate compared to networking and communication and other business skills. 

From what I've heard, one of my clients hesitated at first because of the upfront cost, but within two months, she had locked in a family for six months and the rent more than made up for it.Proactive Communication: Sometimes, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

A couple years ago, someone took the pics off my Zillow rental listing and made a fraudulent Facebook listing and was communicating with prospective tenants.

Friends with rentals have generally indicated that the cosigner is either nowhere to be found or ignores all communication when needed.

Most investors are greedy they hear they need a 10% return the 1% rule or the 2% rules and thing its a failure you dont achieve that and then they take these risks they are not prepared to handle emotionally.

Scheduling a few out to different units and assessing their cost, response/communication, and overall quality of work.