My friend and fellow wholesaler has a great saying about that: "I am the shoe salesman and it is my job to know the financial feet of my buyer."

Did anyone here legitimately start on a shoe string and have major success?

That 'L' shape is from their shoes in front of the sectional "Couch".

I don't know of any other format that allows for all of these options to be showcased in one location.  

If I were in your shoes, I'd give them a 30-day notice of non-renewal,  and apologize, but say you'll be moving in and you'd be happy to be a landlord reference to help them in the future.   

I realize there would be many variations and ways to go, but just off the top of your head, how many properties would you put money down on if you were in my financial shoes?

They would supply their furniture for little to no cost and they could set displays on the furniture from whom supplied it, we like to use the word "showcase" b/c it grabs their attention immediately.

I am in Justin's shoes.  

Or if you have one operating checking account for all your properties, then have one security deposit checking account.I haven't researched your state (PA) in depth, @Richard Fields, but if it is the case that the tenant is entitled to any interest earned on their money, and no interest is earned because it was held in a checking account, then that would eliminate a headache of figuring out whose pennies belong to whom when it comes time to return the security deposit.It's probably the case that you'd thereby also be forfeiting the 1% administrative fee mentioned too, but again in my mind it wouldn't be worth the hassle - life is complicated enough without generating tasks for the sake of literally a few bucks.So in your shoes I'd probably put all the security deposits for that property in a secondary checking account and just use Excel or whatever bookkeeping method you normally use, to keep track of them.But I'm not an attorney and am not giving you legal advice.

If it were me in your shoes, I would let them pay rent if they did it in the next few days.