Good hinges, locks, hasps, I'd suggest covering windows with bars or heavy screening with expanded steel.

We purchased our first two rental properties and have one of them leased (the other rehab just finished and we are currently screening tenants).

We have been waiting for 22 years to see the road sign scrawled in blood red letters, Curve Ahead!

After my son graduated then I took the rental license and hired a PM to find the tenant do all the screening.

(poor advertisement= longer vacancys) They also screen the tennants.

The house was actually occupied by a very sad-looking addict who had made a habit of leaving blood-soaked cotton balls and bandages throughout the house.

.* You have to foreclose to get them out of there if they default (3-6 mths, or more, with no payments and maybe a trashed house), so you better screen them closely.

Also remember that in a park usually the tenant you pick will have to pass the park's requirements as well, so find out what those are before you start your screening.

Usually when building capital, it is a combination of steady savings and some other unplanned/unexpected financial windfall that we use for investing rather than a new big screen or whatever the average person does with it.

Can't get blood out of a turnip you know. :)