If you want to have security that the space you will rent out will be safe and OK, then you should re-compute how much you should be adding to the rent.

Hopefully something where you can automate weekly payments.2) What software does he need to install on his computer so you can get screen shots every 10 minutes or less, the way it works with oDesk.

I'm not sure exactly how it works, but there's a "computer guy" my broker pays by the hour to stuff craigslist with our ads.

I'd gather all the information I could, then punch the numbers into a computer program I'd made that would tell me what I could expect (you could do this in a spreadsheet too w/o needing to know how to write computer programs).

Does the county have computer access. this is very helpful. concentrate on 2 or 3 connected zip codes to understand domogramphics.

As a fellow newcomer myself - my suggestion is to stay planted on the computer and read more on these forums.

Also with companies and even the US government getting their secure websites hacked, I feel better having my data on my computer.

I rarely ever print out a post for later review away from my computer, but this is an exception.When I get to 5 units I owe you a bottle of Scotch.

For everyone that lets tenants pull their own credit and send it to you, I must say I think that's a bad idea, sooner or later you're going to get a half-way computer literate tenant who will realize who simple it is to simply edit the pdf or other document and remove or change negative items...

They wouldn't take computer generated drawing and if any measurement was off we would be turned down.