Three people and two dogs were approved, but  now there are five people and four dogs, including at least one great dane, some of which have dug up the yard extensively and done other damages to the property.  

We get to the home and when walking up she got out of her car and had a corn dog in each hand. 

There was dog feeces all over the backyard.

See what the property looks like and what it eventually sells for, work on your rapport building skills - pet the dog, let the cat rub on you, admire their family pictures, etc.

The way we run our buildings, WE run the show and WE dictate the terms, not the tenants and we don't allow tails to wag our dogs.

Make sure your content is unique.SEO take as a minimum of 6 months to see results and yes depending on the search queries could take a year.Queries and search behavior change all the time.

Typically you want the well head above ground so fertilizer, dog poo and such has to take the long route to get inside the well.Feels great to do the DIY.

I do plan to keep it as a long term rental (it's 4 blocks away from my house), I just don't like that almost all the applicants have pets (only 1 didn't have one) so that being said I would hate for a cat/dog to ruin my brand new hardwood floors with their pee but maybe I'm being to paranoid and maybe it's worth the risk and make it a high end rental and hopefully keep the high rent.I still haven't put in the granite, this was one of the conditions for me to charge $1,700/month, I haven't done a good job on doing my homework about the type of upgrades on the rentals in the area, I do remember seeing a couple that mentioned granite, I definitely need to be sharper and get to know my market real well, I was thinking the best way to do this is to become a "prospective" tenant and go check out all the inventory for rent in the area.

So I've made the decision to start bird-dogging to get my feet wet.

Lastly, do what is now being done for dog feces:  take a DNA swipe of each tenant and send it into the lab.