Focus on tenant screening, building a local team, and learning as much as you can, starting early sets you up for long-term success!

I think I have a pretty standard screening criteria.

For the right people with the right perspective, it could be a great way to diversify your investment and enhance your quality of life. 

But around here some of the screening services that claim to do background checks do a lousy job of it.

Ultimately it was the customer service and poor quality of my post cards that caused me to leave.

Run a credit/screening report on yourself.

Take a look at the pictures, is it higher, lower, middle quality compared to yours.

One bit of advice where you can be ahead of the curve is to write down your screening criteria for possible tenants and commit to following it.

Stessa brings accounting, tenant screening, financial reporting and more into a single integrated platform built for investors, by investors.

@Chris Kay finding a quality, cost-effective contractor is extremely difficult:(There are thousands of contractors that are great talkers, but rarely perform within budget.Standard bait & switch is to lowball a bid, then once they get started all sorts of things "pop up" that somehow their bid didn't cover.