I also had to evict one of my tenants that I inherited after owning the property for only 7 of owning the property.

If worse comes to worse and I need to get a judgement against the tenant and co-signer(s) can I force them to pay?!?

From a birds eye view and in a perfect world people would buy a property and their tenants would pay for it.

I recommend you start with duplexes as you should always have a paying tenant.

That's just life.We had a situation where one tenant had been living at our property for years with several other tenants below them over that time period. 

Major difference between working with market renters and tenant assistant programs as well.

RentRedi’s syndication marketing helped us secure a great tenant in under four days, including employment and landlord verification, as well as criminal, credit, banking, and eviction history checks.

Hopefully, you find it helpful and qualifies us to assist you with your goals:)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Recommend you first figure out the property Class you want to invest in, THEN figure out the corresponding location to invest in.Property Class will typically dictate the Class of tenant you get, which greatly IMPACTS rental income stability and property maintenance/damage by tenants.If you apply Class A assumptions to a Class B or C purchase, your expectations won’t be met and it may be a financial disaster.If you buy/renovate a property in Class D area to Class A standards, what quality of tenant will you get?

We stay for a week between tenant turnover that already has a gap.

Along with personal reasons IE living with tenant.