And god forbid the sponsor lives in a million dollar home. drives Mercedes or worse a lambo.. takes vacations to exotic locations.. wife has fancy clothes and a lot of jewlery.. etc etc. the papers love that stuff.in the mid 80's my company I was a consultant for ( independent contractor I was a RE broker and I found and brokered the transactions great gig by the way).. their disclosures were just as onerous.

When they entered, they found clothes, shoes, toys, etc. all over the house and it was clear someone had been living there.

Buy clothes at thrift stores.

I will get your coffee, pick up clothes from the cleaners WHATEVER IT TAKES to learn about real estate investing from someone who is doing deals.What can I bring to the table?

That's all business and I will leverage for growth there, but it will be old cars, non-designer clothes, and a paid off mortgage in our personal finances.

Looks like dampness from subsoil or a crawl space next to the finished area.

I would not finance the $70 as Rent, but I have Financed the Security deposit, its not the best situation, but if they have a clean background, and are just having a tough month with moving and all, maybe they will be good, its a roll of the dice,  i guess a good way to tell is their car and cloths, are they in new name brands and wearing $300 shoes, driving a new car but working as a cashier. or burger flipper?

If it was obvious they were gone (no clothes, no food, just trash left behind),  go ahead with cleaning it up and getting it ready to rent.  

We ask him to leave at the end of the lease.Another tenant left his windows open in a heavy rainstorm, all his clothes and my carpeting and wooden floors were ruined.

If you make decisions, or if you predetermine future events based on the way they "sound", you are going to miss out on a lot of great opportunities.If the first time anyone heard any of the following statements:1 - I can build a set of monkey bars, out of wood, wire and cloth, and it will allow me to fly,2 - I'm going to take a bunch of "1's" and "0's", string them together in different patterns, and it will allow me to think about anything faster than the speed of light.3 - I'm going to eat a white oddly shaped ball, that came out of a chicken's....and it will taste great.4 - I'm going to collect and drink a whitish liquid that a cow had sprayed on the ground, and it will taste great....the words, "it sounds too good to be true" were overheard, and none of the above were done because everyone that heard those words believed them, we may never have the use of a computer, and airplane, and would not have been able to eat breakfast when hungry.Money doesn't make a noise, so money decisions shouldn't be based on what you hear...but by what you see.Credit cards work, if you are disciplined enough to work fast enough to pay them off before the interest kicks in.