.-- Or, what we do is offer the free rent AFTER & ONLY if they pay their first 3 months of rent on time to earn it.4) Lower the rent 5% every 2-4 weeks until activity picks up.5) Understand this is the worst time of year to find tenants.-- Starts picking back up end of February when this tenant pool starts getting their income tax refunds and aren't broke anymore.6) Section 8: where is the property being advertised?

If you do a good job picking tenants, you will be fine.

You get to pick what you want.  

Pick one that is improving, homes being renovated and flipped, vacant storefronts being turned into cool coffee shops etc.Good luck.

Pick a screening platform/application that makes sense for you.As for meeting the applicants, I recommend meeting them at the property to show the place to them rather than getting coffee or food with them.

While this meetup idea comes to fruition, would love to pick your brain about the Kingston area as I get fluent with it from a RE perspective. 

Get 3 jobs...if you work 8-5pm pick up OT or an evening job, and a weekend job. 

Make that rent payment out to you and pick up a roommate.

It's lengthy and of course, they can pick and choose what to read or jump around to what they want to learn. 

Pick solid operators and solid asset classes.We syndicate self-storage projects.