Then, one of the biggest reasons I hate Quicken with a passion is because Intuit (Quicken) did away with the Quicken tax tables and instead of paying $120 per year Quicken wanted to charge me $99 per month, or $1200 per year.

One of the biggest problems with balancing air movement is when units are over-sized.

Like @Alecia Loveless said you can find leases on BP and all over the internet but I would suggest that you find yourself a great lawyer that specializes in landlord tenant law and work with them on your legal documents (yes, a lease is a legal document). 

We've had 3 god awful tenants in 3 years and the biggest one is "It doesn't matter if the person is your best friend in the world, they must sign a lease just like anyone else."

However, one of your biggest advantages is that your property tax basis is lower relative to current investors, so you have structural margin to capture going forward.

We are ranked in the top 15 for most affordable places to live and recently we have grown to be the biggest city in Alabama by population.

Major lessons learned:1) Sometimes the biggest disasters lead to the biggest upside.  2) I filed two insurance claims here - one for the property damage and one for the theft of electrical & plumbing. 

Your biggest obstacle in doing that would be if the work needed was required to be preformed by a licensed professional.

My biggest advice for first timers, before they speak to the owner or listing agent, is to know their numbers.

The biggest benefit as an agent of the MLS in regard to buying your own properties is that you can see the agent notes, you can receive updates through 'showing time' and you can use the official Realtor forms (Offer to purchase and contract 2-T) that make an offer look better than non-agents who write their offers on less familiar forms they find on the internet.