The problem is when people don't have standards and have no reason to explain why they denied Person A and accepted Person B when their info was exactly the same or worse than Person A.So in summary, don't treat your rental applications as job applications.

Appliances, copper, wires, cabinets, everything.The more they have put down and will lose, the more they feel entitled to damage the property on their way out.Sounds like you are treating your people right, but they do crazy things.

Lease-Option/Contract for Deed, where your tenant has a more vested interest in the property and will treat it as their own, instead of a rental.

You'll come across a lot of bad contractors this way as well, so treat it like a numbers game.

If you approach Lease Options like a business, and treat people fair, you will do fine.Below is a link to a very candid interview we just did with one of our Lease Option clients who was not able to purchase the home.Yet we where still able to have a clean, and friendly break.

I'm treating in the morning!!

In no US state is suicide currently against the law, and suicide has never been *treated* as a crime, by any state.

Personally, I like to treat Investment Real Estate like I treat stock investments.

Or do you think doctors and the American public should be picking up the tab to treat the uninsured?

IT IS A BUSINESS, and needs to be treated as such.