Use a voicemail/phone management service so they don't have your home or cell phone number.Get a good lease, make sure all provisions meet the type of property you have then get a lawyer to look it over.Lastly, never tell them you are the owner.  

Go ahead and waste your vacation day in court trying to get blood from a turnip.  

Who’s OutYouYour SpouseYour natural parents and/or your adoptive parentsYour natural grandparentsYour natural children and/or your adopted childrenThe spouses of your natural childrenAny fiduciary of your IRAAny people providing services to your IRA–such as your stockbroker–as well as his employees and both his and his employees’ blood relativesYour IRA custodian or administratorWho’s InYour brothers and sistersYour Spouse’s brothers and sistersYour spouse’s parentsYour spouse’s grandparentsYour stepchildrenYour spouse’s stepchildrenYour grandparent’s spouse, if not your natural grandparentYour aunts, uncles, and cousins

Make sure all contractors that you work with have reliable vehicles and cell phones. 

If not, you're like blood in the water to sharks.

It's an app you can find on Google Play app store for Android phones (I'm sure it's available on the Apple app store, too) that basically adds a second phone number to your existing cell phone that you can text, talk, and set up a seperate voicemail from.

Thomas S.Sorry for such a late response to your post, I work in the Oil Field and have very spoty cell service. 

If I worked over my cell phone plan and killed my cable bill, my expenses would drop another $300(yes I'm overpaying on both).  

Think cell phone and cable.  

I have been searching for my first property day in and day out for about two months now, and with the market being incredibly competitive where I live, I managed to get approved for a perfect flip house by the blood bath we call Fannie Mae!