In my opinion, I am safer when discounting the first month's rent and holding a higher deposit, but that's just me. 

I bet not.  

You bet. 

I'd bet you could get a free answer on this one question, but I don't know for sure.

I bet you folks all already got there.I see the tail end of something up there, really you rent to the first qualified applicant, regardless of qualified sources of income (illegal income is not qualifying income, part time may not qualify, etc) but if you're not in the program, you don't count Sec 8 since you can't receive it.

Juries (unlike judges for the most part) do all sorts of crazy things and when you’re in front of one all bets are off.

I'm going to bet that you have not received August rent either.

If I were in UT or So TX where spec builds make sense, you can bet your bottom dollar I would be spec building and not rehab flipping.

I would bet that if you're a Romney/Ryan supporter, you probably think Obama/Biden are extremist.

My bet is that the tenant worked and maybe with someone else.