There are few more based on the circumstances, some people check the car the tenant is driving, their punctuality for the first showing, drive by old rental place, personal appearance and hygiene, other little stuff to give you a clue what kind of tenant the person may be.I would encourage you to check out thelpa.com, they have a very active landlording forum and products that may of help to you as you get started.

Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas, warnings, encouragement, etc is appreciated!

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I am encouraging everyone I work with to use it.

I encourage you to figure out what is right for you and to follow that path.

Event though I provide all of the information to a potential end buyer, I ALWAYS encourage them to do their own due dilligence.

(and the $5K properties aren't rehabs either...they're rent-ready).To the contrary, I would ENCOURAGE newbies to consider Detroit for investing purposes.

But, I would encourage you to join and become a active member as I would to all newbies or even novice who purchased less than 10 homes.

One developer friend is strongly encouraging me to do a project in the city.

The "fluffy" positive thinking can be used to ease people into exploring real estate investing, but all to often in recent years the former has abandoned the reality of bad things happening and has been molded into a prepackaged sales pitch that encourages people to embrace laziness in exchange for a credit card swipe.