Are there preventative measures that can be taken to insure that probability can be lowered? 

Your credit is a measure of financial trustworthiness.

Measure response rate and quality.

"just give us all your money, sit home and relax and you will be rich in a week, maybe two for good measure.

THE VALIDITY OF THIS LEASE IS PREMISED UPON THE COMPLETION OF PAYMENT OF ALL MOVE-IN COSTS BY THE TENANT(S).Check with a local attorney, but this should give you an easy way to cancel the lease if you find yourself in this unfortunate situation in the future.You'll probably lose some time and rental income by disentangling yourself from this trio, but I always consider my "first time mistake" as tuition and take preventative measures to avoid the same predicament moving forward.Good luck!

The number of dollar bills in circulation is no longer a measure of anything but the number of trees we've recently killed, bleached, and slathered with green ink.

I commonly see people mention cashflow in dollar amount i.e $500 a month as a measure of how successful the property is as a producer. 

I work best in a well defined niche.My hopes for this post are to come up with a measurable plan of action over the next five years to reach my financial goal.  

Additionally, the place has some measure of protection from vandalism. 

They did not measure the time spent "in class" but rather assumed that passing a test on the material meant you had spent the relevant time.You would have to be an agent for two years only to become an employing, or managing, broker -- but not to become an associate broker.