I ended up buying him a bus ticket home with my credit card and he paid me in cash.

In Florida, you're limited to a 12% fee because of all the abuses that have occurred over the last 20 years.

For example, I disqualify for any child abuse or domestic violence, and can cite a good reason.Remember, you can get into trouble even for asking a member of a protected class a simple question that you do not ask everyone else. 

If they want reimbursement, tell them to talk to the tenant upstairs that caused the problem through neglect.FYI: my lease includes a clause that tenants are responsible for damages caused by abuse or neglect.

I consider this more in line with stupidity of youth than a sexual preditor.

I also agree with Gulley's theory of using fraud as a basis for suit if the seller has a history as an abuser.

Use of the word "secret" is so widely used and abused in the information marketing industry because it works.

I waiver between these lines of spending money to save time (time is an asset most of us abuse) and trying to go the more cost efficient route@Chris Adams, so your saying if I buy the hard copy of Quick Books instead of the download I can use the Inuit Payment Network?

Mary Jo, Chris, Heather and everyone starting out, should you still decide to continue I bid you the best of luck in the emotional, social and spiritual struggles that comprise the entirety of buy-and-hold real estate investing.Just in case you are still wondering, while your mileage may vary, my tenants are harmful, suppressive, hypocritical, cultic, meretricious, jargon-spouting, harassive, restrictive, destructive, greedy, mendacious, violent, clueless, mind-numbing, criminal, satanic, spastic, secretive, barratrous, demented, loathsome, crazy, evasive, narrow, splenetic, bilious, belligerent, deceitful, cowardly, malignant, devious, stifling, unethical, opportunistic, uncaring, clumsy, clueless, tasteless, malevolent, avaricious, diseased, unsympathetic, insane, contemptible, self-righteous, dim, self-entitled, dystopic, grim, vengeful, idolatrous, flagrant, self-destructive, controlling, deceptive, illegitimate, brain-damaged, socially poisonous, conspiratorial, manipulative, fraudulent, despicable, weird, imbecilic, libelous, fundamentalist, byzantine, abusive and, to any well-meaning would-be real estate entrepreneur, not good.In other words, if you want to invest, you might want to play eenie-meenie-miney-moe with penny stocks or something.

I have a property manager who screens applicants very carefully, and plays it tough when a tenant tries to be abusive.