For any noobies:  Research a ton and feel free to reach out to people nicely, you'd be surprised just how often people want to help. 

The tenant has not paid anything since April 2024, effectively staying in my property for free for four months.

Hey @Cory Lucas lots of free stuff has some value.

How many tradelines were on his credit report and how many months have the tradelines been open?

For example, Crestview Commons is offering 150% and 1 and half month free rent.

You will send them prop address and they will email you back a report, with list of similar houses sold in recent months, advise you on temperature of the market and so on.

All the freelance sites basically provide the same low quality results (they usually have sites where they farm backlinks) and can increase the "toxicity" of your site but for pennies on the dollar of what local companies charge, it's not a bad start.The best way to increase SEO over time is Blog posting though, and it's free. 

The way I heard it explained is that you take over the existing mortgage and then you can either rent it or transfer the mortgage to someone for free but the videos I’ve watched never say anything about giving the seller anything other than money down to lock it up.

Visits by service folks were for a clogged shower drain ($75), a problem with the fridge (user error, $75) and replace a broken toilet seat (free, boyfriend of cleaner knocked it out.

From what I had read, I thought it might be 1% but when I look at the top 100 cash flow markets for 2024, they are all less than .8% so then I questioned :-)  I understand this report is identifying markets, not individual listings.Thanks again!