:D I know it will take time and a lot of hard work, but it would be totally worth it to design the quality of my life.The reason that I have joined BP (instead of more lurking) is that I am looking for an opportunity to work for free 20 hrs/wk under an active and successful wholesaler to learn the business from the inside out.

It's much easier just to re-lease the place.To prevent this, I would spend more time screening your tenants.

Best piece of advice I would share is don't skip any steps in your screening process.

I now have employees that do it but if someone (before) were to find them for me I'd gladly pay them a commission of sorts -- depending on the quality of the deal.

The appraisal institute courses are usually high quality but also a pretty expensive.I am reading Marty Boardman's book about flipping houses and it is an excellent overview of the process.

However you must remember that both of these are "Rules of Thumb" They are great for per-screening a deal but you should use actual numbers as much as you can for a final analysis of a deal.

Your first post asks for opinions as to the quality of your proposed ad; when opinions are given you "disagree".

Screen them.

They ran for 12 years & still worked fine when we sold it.Meanwhile we have been through a lot of high end stuff in our homes & the poor quality is frustrating.

Spokane seems to be a strong market, so you might face less vacancy and higher quality tenants, depending on the location.