You don’t get any of the same satisfaction from viewing pixels on a screen of your investment status as you do from seeing a closet full of canned goods and critical supplies all stocked up at home, or admiring the luster and weight of a .999% pure, precious metal coin in your hand.

Likewise, in my low income rentals, I take out the closet doors, remove all ceiling fans, remove all screen doors, take out all dishwashers, remove garbage disposals, and do not provide air conditioning.

Afterall, who knows what types of units that investor has, or what kind of neighborhood they're in, or how he does his tenant screening, or even IF he does any tenant screening.

As for the property, it's a decent home but needs some cosmetic upgrades - paint, carpeting, touch up a few small holes in the interior, replace the screen doors, and replace the tile flooring.

I could only find 2 recommendations from comments in that thread:1) do a better job screening the tenant - yes I agree. 2) take photos of the conditions of the ppty before tenant moves in.

Let me ask you, if you got this description as a potential landlord when screening new applicants, would it really be preparing you for anything?

Make sure you do good screening on tenants.

There is really no screen that shows you who is late, by how much, and what the TOTAL they owe you is.  

As long as @Eric B. screens the buyers (or sellers) the right way, then he'll have cash buyers for days.

It might have been good screening or great luck that kept down the maintenance and damage.John Corey