All of the tools that you use to try to figure out if a potential tenant will be a "good" tenant revolves around trying to answer those 3 questions.

I am new here just trying to learn and gain knowledge to start buying my own rentals 

Do we try to just buy a modest house through foreclosure or some other screamin' deal, house hack, then build up our portfolio from there?

And , since I had been working in an industry I really wasn’t passionate about, this was my chance to try an industry that I have had a passion for for the last 12 years or so.

It's always hard to fix things after closing, but you should try anyway.

If you insist, try skip tracing if you have one of their phone numbers.

I would agree, I'd want to try and grow my experience and clientele before starting the franchise if I could.

I’ve been trying to learn a lot about Airbnb and want to get into that side specifically.

Fast forward to the end of the deal and we have been trying to get  payoff letter for weeks to no avail.

About 1/3 were in limbo--neither rebuilding nor selling, while owners tried to decide what to do--sell, rebuild, or fight with the insurance company--or just didn't have the money to rebuild and didn't want to sell.