You were trying to be nice by waiving the late fee but what you've done is taught this new tenant that your rules aren't set in stone, but rather as wavy as cooked spaghetti.

@Andrew Cook  Welcome to BP.

In pursuit of such I found my passion in Real Estate,Unlike some who advertise buying or selling houses, I have a passion to build homes...a place where milestones and memories are made.. a place of joy, laughter, and a good home cooked meal...

I work 6 days/ week and when I'm not working I love cooking, biking, and travelling.I just started listening to the bp podcast, on episode 28 currently...there's so many eps!

I say previous because the home was demolished by the bank or whoever because the occupants were cooking meth.

Well as Corey said read up on here and soak up all the info but if you want my opinion on courses there are 2 that have gotten a lot of praise with very few if any negative responses and they are:Steve Cook's Wholesaling 2.0 and Vena Jones Cox's Wholesaling course.Also our own member Andrew Massaro aka The Maestro has an ebook you might want to check out.

Im staying clear from cook county, unless its an offer/deal I can't refuse :)

They usually are glad that I won't tolerate wild parties, drunks, smokers, overnight guests often, and all of the usual "bad" roommate traits.

It might even get people who are smokers to move out of the projects and find a private landlord willing to tolerate smoking.

Currently i require: non-smoker,income 3x rent with pay stub verification, no bankruptcy/felonies/evictions, 5 years rental history/good references, employment verification, submit to background credit check (i don't have any set policy on minumum credit score yet),1st month payment and security deposit due at signing, must comply with online payments.