Hopefully combining these 2 strategies while enable me to get my first deal done soon.

The deal was financed through a combination of private funds from our Partner Driven capital resources and contributions from our partner, Archie Raglin.

Forced appreciation combine with rent increases make it a very lucrative strategy. 

My list includes - last 2 years employment history and current employment [2 paystubs], criminal checks, eviction checks, No Pets, No smoking, tenant pays utilities, maintains landscape, no subleasing, bring own washer & dryer, 1 month security deposit and transfer of utilities before moving in, rental insurance, all occupants will be on lease, notice period of 2 months for termination, tenant references, No cosigners, no painting walls, late fee notice, any hoa fines should be paid by tenant, inspection of property at 3, 9 and 12 months.Please let me know if I am missing anything.3.

Minimum qualifications that I typically look for with tenants are a 600-620 credit score, need to be making at least 2.5-3x the monthly rent in combined income (verify their employment by making a call/googling), and I don't like to see any previous evictions/certain felonies for background check.

The power of REI in todays market is delayed gratification  combines with the tax benefits the following year. 

Those three tithes combined resulted in an ~23% giving rate not 10%...each is 10% with two of them annually and the third every three years.So all that said, Christians ought to give from the heart (2 Cor. 9:7), regularly (1 Cor 16:2) and if you struggle with the amount pray and consider what is placed upon your heart (James 1:5).

This was a costly venture that, combined with several months of lackluster performance, did not allow for distributions to our shareholders.

Then combine that with talking to other people in these meetups and I think you'll start to gravitate to one idea over some others and then just start figuring out what you need to do to make that happen. 

I personally think it's not just mailers but a combination of actions that works.