@Erik Whiting  over the course of the decades working with clients another very easy way to determine the status of your renter is to look at their car.. if its a pig sti  so is the house 90% of the time I work out of my car a lot so its probably a little more messy than some.. but you know what I mean.. you can just tell.. and I really like  the ODOR  thought process you can smell folks that are un tidy they have a certain odor to their cloths.. as one who has worked in the distressed space for so many years .. you just know it..

However, just by listening to it in the car a couple times through I became more familiar with terms and concepts and, perhaps, a bit more receptive to my next deal.

I don't know where I heard it, could have been on a podcast here on BP, but someone mentioned about looking at a person's car as a leading indicator of how they'd keep your rental unit.

As for lead generation I think all the methods( there's a word I like better, method) for getting leads are great: bandit signs, a sign on your car, a sign at your work, business cards, direct mail, conversations with people who seen your sign, flyers, t-shirts with your logo, a handshake. 

As long as your trip is primarily for your rental activity, you can add a ­vacation to the end of the trip, make a side trip purely for fun, or even enjoy evenings doing vacation activates, and still deduct your entire airfare, rental car, or standard mileage rate if using your own car. A

Hello everyone,When buying a car a bad engine or transmission could be deal breaker for most.

Thank you @Eric Gross and @Cara Lonsdale for pointing out he paper trail aspect.

A $200 raise is 7.4% 2 years later, or about 3.7% a year in increase, that's not bad at all in a market that sounds like is increasing as much as yours is.I'd consider doing what Cara said, tell them it's $300 increase if they sign one year but you'll be happy to limit it to a lesser amount if they sign 2 year.

@Cara Lonsdale I know your post was 8 months ago but I wanted to mention that when we went to @Michael Blank to partner with we also did not get far.

Originally posted by @Cara Lonsdale:Originally posted by @Amy Mueller:Thanks for all the replies!