Good Morning Ken, Please PM your Buy and Hold loan details.

Good morning Brie & Mark,Thank you both for your much valued input.  

Unfortunately, depending on the area, you may need to pay someone to sleep there and they arrive at dark and leave in the morning at light.

I can try and use closet boards but they're fairly short.Also pine is fairly soft even if 1880's pine was harder than modern pine.

Rent Perfect does a soft pull which does not impact the applicants credit score.That takes care of the knowns.

For the day time group: Should we meet early in the morning or at lunch time?

I signed and told my mortgage broker this morning and she had a fit.

I think it is very important to look beyond the hard data in screening tenants and also look at the soft data - such as, how they act in-person, their tendencies, social media, if their car is clean and things such as that.

:)You can be a great landlord without being soft on them.

Local prices seems soft and not as robust and a bit hard for sellers to sell at a decent price .