This way is more negotiable.The owner could do a "subject to" or a "lease option" that will help you both. 

B&H will always be my bread and butter or meat and potatoes if you will, but as long as the geese keep laying those golden eggs and my loans keep dropping like flies I can branch out to steeply discounted cash buys I lease option to handy people that improve my properties for me at insane returns. 

Review their lease agreement and addendums.

In my 20s I moved quite frequently, lived in three countries, and rented a number of apartments.

Very few of my tenants work at Cummins - I think this stems from most Cummins employees leasing apartments from the huge complexes in town.

@Henry D West My first deal was a lease option.

I personally wholesale lease options, so I can work with low/no equity leads, and recommend everyone learn how to do that too.As for other marketing.

Get them on a lease and make them put a deposit down.

One tenant is on a 12-month lease, the other on a month to month and I plan on raising the rent of those on the month to month by 10%.

One I had a retired couple agree verbally to 1-1/2 month, hemmed and hawed about it, and they're suppose to bring it to the lease signing with the first months rent.