The neighborhood quality really changes from block to block.

The quicken app is easy to use to do everything I awaits above from your smart phone if you choose and I was able to download it on my business partners phone (she is of the "non computer generation") and she is able to see how much is in our business account as well as how much income has been brought in for the month vs how much we've spent in one easy snapshot.

I've also run into realtors giving me comps that were similar based on # of beds and baths but when I analyzed those comps more they weren't in the same quality neighborhood and some "attached" homes etc and weren't quite the same as what I was looking at.  

The voice-mails are very low in quality, but the email inquiries have been pretty good.

I agree, it would depend on the type of property you manage, lower quality may require a lot of time involvment, may not be worth it.

@Jeremy Davis you're just a Stone's throw away.I worry about the discrimination aspect, however my plan/goal is to create transparent guidelines for our judging criteria that will help insure quality tenants (kind of leaning towards a points based system).

Plus the word doesn't contribute to positive brand identification on the retail buyer side, especially for someone with intent to create a quality product.

Again, maybe just luck because of the type and quality of paper HSBC is dealing with.For me the sub2 and discounted payoff is just another possible tool.

We have a good quality blue carpet in the home currently and are trying to decide whether to keep it, replace it with a more neutral color or replace with some form of wood flooring, laminate flooring or tile flooring throughout.

The problems that you'll have and need to learn how to resolve will help you learn to either like the crappy tenant business and look for more, similar properties, or buy properties in better areas attracting a higher quality tenant, or become a note investor.