If you give them your cell phone number, they will text you at all hours.

Insurance companies, banks, cellphone companies, and yes landlords will always have late pays no matter the amount of screening your doing,  it is statistically impossible to have zero late pays.

@Scott Carrillo I do that in Cleveland: $1K to find, research and buy a property on Sheriff sale, $500 for repeating clients who I'm managing the property.Rehab usually takes 10% or $2K whichever higher.

Put up your own rental ad on postlets dot com , get a google voice number to bounce to your cell phone, us the google voice number in your ads.  

@Lance Luvaul since you are borrowing from your dad I would suggest you give him either what @Chris Mason suggested or 50% of the profits, whichever is higher.

And then there are the ones that are on their cell phones, and you think they are talking to you when they are really talking to someone else.

That requires that whichever CPA you work with have full visibility into all your active and passive sources of income (and losses!). 

Cell phone camera take pretty good pictures these days. 

You may want to look into tax liens, private lending, etc. in whichever area you intend to purchase RE.

You could form the parent LLC in whichever state you and your wife remain residents of.