Maybe you bird dog and find a deal you can pull off with a partner and make 1/2 the profit.  

multiple streams of income and not just one, for starters -- Robert Kiyosaki, Warren Buffet, snoop dog, vanilla ice rapper, Will Smith, Rockefeller family has multi generational wealth that the family will never have to worry about money.

As an aside, we purchased using a bird dog.  

@Sara Valentine Service dogs are not considered pets and are often vert well trained.

Do you require the tenants to have renters insurance AND do you make sure the renters policy does not have a dog bite / dog breed exclusion?

I have laminate in my home, the dog urinated in the same area for a few years causing bubbling at the seems a little bit.

If you don't have time to bird-dog your own deals, these guys can be a great asset.

Then there is one on the wall to the left of it, which I hate opening since it opens to the patio of my neighbors apartment where she keeps 5 little dogs, so opening it only fills the hot living room with the smell of dog urine.

I can tell you the last person I evicted was shocked, and was having to live with friends because no one would rent to them... not even a mobile home... and they had a family of 4 with a dog.  

Also on the backside of the property, she put a junky chair and table with a smoke bucket and dog tie out.