", if you can be thoughtful and diligent and very skeptical, and wait until things are obviously cheap, you will generally outperform 90% of other investors. equation {Buy low + decades} = RichGet a hold of someone on the phone, about the investment, ask a few questions and get their best contact information.

Start communication about 2 months prior to the lease ending sending out renewal emails and following up with a text or a phone call to confirm.

A select few will also provide contact phone numbers.3.

The landlord was wanting to put on bluetooth or wifi keypads, but then I said you have to change batteries, they wouldnt know how to or if the wifi/bluetooth or their phone messed up- there are SO many things that could go wrong. 

and whip out your phone."

I also use OpenPhone for my phone systems, and I love it.

I think guests hardly ever damage things intentionally, but when you have luggage coming in and out all the time and little kids running around a "new place," there IS a lot more wear-and-tear, scuffs/dents/scrapes, and broken glass. 

Basically, I was lied to but of course this all happened over a phone call. 

is there a good phone app?

Do they have preferred vendors that always answer the phone because it is that PM calling?