If your intention is to only live there for a year or two, I would definitely put more weight on this calculation to make sure it makes sense as an investment.Hopefully you find this helpful. 

Just a side note here about low credit: seniors who don't charge up cards or have no installment plans, young people fresh out of college, and undocumented workers all have low credit scores but may make great tenants.As others mentioned above, income and rental history is what you put the most weight on.

They are worth their weight in gold, and will only charge at the end.

The appraisal proposed weighted blended rent was within $3 from our underwriting, so basically the same.

I am very well versed in the "Moral outrage and righteous indignation" arguments and know full well they carry zero weight in a court of law. 

More importantly is to ask these questions of a former landlord and put more weight on that than the current landlord.

Have yet to close a deal but the experience im getting is worth it weight in gold.

I don't put a lot of weight in earnest money in the state of Arkansas. 2.

When I say in the process, I mean we have secured lending, have evaluated and attempted purchase of 1 candidate (couldn't close the deal) and are now moving on to another candidate that we like.I've been reading around the forums about some of the financial evaluations and am working to understand why Net Present Value of free cash flows is not being used more in the evaluation of a property.It is interesting to understand the CoC as an income statement percentage and it is certainly interesting to do some quick calculations with perhaps the 50% rule.But until you take a series of cash flows, discount them by a Weighted Average Cost of capital, and determine if you can clear your next best alternative (stock market, paying down debt), how do you know if you really have a something that will make you money?

.- hard backI am looking for someone local to Georgia as the shipping costs on this weight wouldn't make sense so picking up would have to do.