I live not too far from there (in the 50s at Fremont) and rent for my 3 bed/2bath house would be 1600-1800).The second thought is, what about using property management software like Cozy?

Read up on your state's specific landlord laws and within the confines of that law, write the lease to protect yourself from a lazy tenant.

I may at least follow up on rental references.I signed up for Cozy.

Currently, I use facebook and craigslist to advertise I email the applications to the interested parties and set up viewings when contactedI currently use cozy to perform a credit check, but I know I have turned a few people off when they find out that cozy charges 24.99 for each credit check (mostly parents).

For tenant screening, check out the BP post: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2013/01/2...For applications, you may want to consider using cozy.co - the last time I had a vacancy I had flyers with the unit information and the URL for cozy- they go on the site and apply and pay for the background check through the site.

 ( I am a human , I work outside in 100 degree weather  it works for me)  I have never seen anything in landlord/tenant law that says a house has to be fit and cozy for a dog .   

ok I haven't got that far yet coz I aren't a landlord yet!

We could only go back 2 years.. the person had worked there over 7 years.. the loss was much larger but it was confined to the 2 years for our action..

I do intend to run credit and background checks (signed up with Cozy). 

So far, I setup a listing on Cozy and Zillow, prepared a rental application, and wrote a lease agreement.