Liability, peace of mind, preservation of a normal scent, and flooring are not worth that $200 - $400 initial fee and very small additional rental income.

His teaching style and the content of his courses are just awesome.May he rest in peace...

(I'd run a criminal background check and a credit check on him or her).I know it'd cost me a little more up front since I'm sure I could't charge the tenant for the cost to background check everyone, but I think that extra cost might be worth it for my peace of mind.Any advice?

It will also give you provide a peace of mind.

I really wish amazon and facebook would just write the buildings off and not pay property taxes on them and leave the doors open so while the city council is fighting to get that money all the "peaceful" people from the CHAZ can move in and destroy the building, making it worthless and then king county can take it back for taxes owed. 

That'll give you the breathing room, and peace of mind, you need to make things work.

My experience in previous threads Vikram is you come in with a cloak of nonpartisan peace and then try to insert your liberal viewpoints and if you're called on it bemoan that we all just can't love one another.

We view real estate as a way to possibly get out of the daily rat race and enhance our retirement so that when we retire in about 20yrs we will be set.

I appreciate you explaining your viewpoints.apologies 3% is not the most recent statistic, particularly with the international wars, international business, and greater ease of travel, I expect it is higher now. but you have to admit that until recently Americans have not mixed in with the rest of the world the way the Canadians and Europeans have. this is because America was such an independent country for so long, and kudos for that.it is a really big question to ask where we would draw the lines to fight for our beliefs at home or in other parts of the world because as we speak we have military on foreign soil trying to hold back terrorism, we have underground criminal agendas in our countries and in countries that affect ours, we have other agendas coming from many directions based on greed for power some of which are harmless and some of which are not, we have extremists, and we have an overwhelming majority of people who just want to live peacefully and who may or may not agree on the methods to achieve that. we also have a lot of people who talk and others who are putting their lives on the line right now to stand for their beliefs and the ones they love. many people have sacrificed a lot to keep our countries free. frankly I wish they could be afforded the same rights as terrorists on American soil but they willingly took up arms and have risked their lives to protect the rest of us including the terrorists here at home, and many of them were injured and many have died doing just that. frankly I have more respect for them than those who should have to give up their rights (following due process) by things they have done to innocent people. in general I don't think people really care about our military enough. they don't support them, listen to them, understand them or even know what they are doing.

I don't mind paying for the peace of mind.