When I went to see the property it was your typical owner-destroyed foreclosure.

It's amazing how easily an unscrupulous company can totally destroy a person's credit without merit.

There is NOTHING you can put in a rental that the tenant won't destroy (including tile).

They do NOTHING to improve the properties because the class of tenant will just destroy any improvements.

And let's just hope that call (if it comes) is only suing you for all past rents (arguable if enforceable - read above), and not an injury, fire, or death that destroys a chunk of your net worth.

You might want to ask what type of birds...large macaws destroy wood work and drywall if they can reach it....and Conures are ear-splittingly loud...

Thing is, the National Association of Realtors published a "Danger Report" in May of 2015 that said the #1 threat to Real Estate Agents is "Masses of Marginal Agents Destroy Reputation: The real estate industry is saddled with a large number of part-time, untrained, unethical, and/or incompetent agents.

This Keeps the boards/wall getting wet and destroyed from you know what.Franklin

Carpet is for sure the cheapest, but it'll get destroyed by tenants pretty quickly.

@Scott Schultz  deed comes in the mail 1 to 3 weeks later.. no help with evictions. the owner is now tenant at sufferance and they have 10 days in Oregon 21 in WA to move if they don't you do a normal eviction and Prey they don't destroy the home on the way out. many won't buy homes that were occupied It did not bother me.. as I would usually work some sort of deal out with them to rent back sometimes.. but that generally did not work either as once people go down that road they just can't keep it together. same here bids are day before or morning of or never.. some of the best deals are just showing up with a check and no one else has one because there was no opening bid and low and behold its a drop bid and you get a screaming deal.. there is no judge confirmation because we are trustee state.now we did go to sherrifs sales a few years back because of the mortgage mess and this has thrown a huge wrinkle into it... there is a 6 month right of redemption.. so you want to own the redemption rights prior to bidding.. there are companies that just run around acquiring these rights then you as bidder either don't know you need them or whatever and they approach you and want to sell them to you for 5 to 20k other wise you have to sit on the house for 6 months.. now you can legally kick out the owner .. but any work you do to the house other than for keeping it from getting hurt by weather etc if someone redeems you lost those rehab dollars.Also if there is a tenant with a bonafide lease the new federal law and I am sure your aware as a winning bidder you have to honor the lease for the terms of the lease.