Centralize your back office / use remote employees / VA where appropriate to cut costs and improve service levels / responsiveness.  5.

We've been able to rent properties pretty quickly, just as long as the rental rate is appropriate!

If you don't have a key, change the doorknob to an appropriate interior knob that doesn't require a key.I provide my tenants with keys to all doors.

If the tenant fails to provide proof, I would reach out to a local attorney about handling the lease violation appropriately, especially since Texas has specific landlord-tenant laws.

Additionally, I expect applicants to follow instructions in the advertisement and application, to make and keep appointments, to show up on time for appointments, dress and behave appropriately at appointments, and in general demonstrate throughout the process that they are someone that is easy and pleasant to do business with.

Only in community property states, can an LLC with only husband and wife as members elect to treat their LLC as a disregarded entity, which means all LLC income and expenses are reported on either Schedule C or Schedule E (as appropriate) as if the LLC did not exist.

Supplement this far simpler entity approach by ensuring you have appropriate types and levels of insurance, you operate your business in a manner in which your conduct is not considered an exclusion in your policy, you work with licensed and insured vendors, you execute contracts with indemnification clauses with these same vendors/ require additional insured status &  maintain appropriate licensing and permits.

There's a good chance the issue(s) you face has already been discussed and answered.Ask questions in the appropriate forum.

There's a good chance the issue(s) you face has already been discussed and answered.Ask questions in the appropriate forum.

I give these threats no thought because 1) my actions are appropriate 2) i document well 3) they have yet to follow through with any of these lawsuits 4) typically their ignorance is apparent in what they are threatening to sue for.