While the building monitoring / management system may not be generating higher rents for us - despite the fact our student tenants are enamoured with being able to unlock their door with their smartphone {soon they will be able to see who is at the door on their phones/pads as well} - a consequence of installing the system is all our properties come with complimentary fibre optic Internet access which has helped us maintain a vacancy rate of 0.5% over the past two years.

The interesting thing was she allowed travel time as RE 'involvement' time :) However, I quickly realized that the mileage audit was the proverbial 'camel nose under the tent' so it was cat & mouse for the 3 days.

If not, carpet and pad will make a huge difference.

As an update, we closed on the house 1.5 weeks ago and advertised it immediately (MLS, Craigslist, Zillow, Hot Pads, Military by Owner, etc.), and have not had one phone call or e-mail!

City zoning or building inspections can tell u what is legal many prefer the do it now and ask permission later, some investors play a game to put em up as fast as they get taken down and play cat and mouse until threatened with a fine.

That said get a copy and at least read it so you know what the standard form says.Stationary supply stores for RE will have pads of forms that you can use as an alternative.Most sellers will be put off if the contract you use is too complex or too different from what they are used to in the market.2.

If your property is loaded into a property management software like TenantCloud, they will publish it out to a lot of different sites for you with the click of a mouse.

They usually have it as a jumping pad to move to other things as quickly as possible.

About 70% of our tenants use it these days.If you want to give your tenants the option of using credit card, debit or PAD from a single location you could use RentMoola (NFI)

Both do not have the backing, but plan to use pad underneath.