I thought it was just 75% of the whole property and I was even informed him I would be comfortable with paying the full amount of $1100 for the last u it just to get into the property.

The tenant was absolutely adamant on staying no matter what and they treated the whole situation very very personal.

They might flush a toilet or look under the sink but the plumber is the one to scope the toilets and check the whole plumbing system including to the street.

Damian Robinson did you just buy the land or did you pay for a whole new house up front too?

I guess that was my main concern in this whole deal.

@Conrad Legé, the point she was getting at is: In areas where people want to live, the cash flow return is minimal even for for 25% deposit investors who rent the whole property out, and thus, much harder for 3.5% deposit owner-occupiers, who have to live there too!

Congratulations on your achievement with the Salesperson  License. 

We have redone the whole house, costing roughly $5,000 and a ton of long days.

Found them off the Quickbooks website under the Support/Find a QB ProAdvisor section and they basically held my hand through the whole process of how to do enter transactions, import my credit card statements online, cleaned up my chart of accounts, etc. 

The solution is to find or manually build a quantitative, holistic tenant screening system that looks at the whole tenant- what does their employment trajectory look like?