You can also waive the application fee.

The mover can often do the set up for an additional fee. 

Or do you plan on wholesaling and 4k is the fee?

The ACH transfers are slow but reliable.Cash: dangerous to handle that much cash, easy to lose, have stolenChecks: bounced check fees are a painPaypal and some other services: I have heard horror stories of accounts being frozen for weird reasons

The new atrium glass was not in the original budget but really made the project pop.

Originally posted by John A.:@ J Scott.

I would think it would at least be worth talking over with the underwriters; for someone who doesn't have a load of cash sitting around, I think it is a viable option, and as I showed in the original post, the math still works out to save money monthly... seems like a win-win to me.

Originally posted by @Calvin T.

First I'd do the same screening on the son and his wife as you did on your current tenants because what happens if the original tenants move out and the son and his family do not? 

I read that it was a fairly simple bill that was mostly concentrating on Maximum occupants per bedroom and more or less a small fee to register in the system.