I think I found an article called "10 Power Clauses every Lease should Have" or something like that.As far as collecting rent and screening tenants and stuff, I'm having good luck with Cozy.co (not .com).

This gives you an opportunity to start fresh and screen your own new tenants.

Requiring a full payment up front is part of your screening process.

By following they will see your new posts on their main screen.

Yo blood,Go to Zillow or trulia, and find similar houses to the house in question, and check out how long these similar houses have been sitting on the market before they sold.Check to see the condition of the house, then also call the listing agent and question her like a russian spy.Then what you can do too is visit open houses in the area of the house in question and follow the visitors around, talk to them ask then what they think what they like what they do not like.Do this long enough and before you know it you know exactly what would sell and what doesn't.For me...Now I simply take a look at any house and I know exactly how long  the houses would stay on the market after we bought it.Don't believe me?

Other than buying in a "safe" area, screening potential tenants, and potentially not going alone (which is cumbersome) how do you combat this barrier?

Unexpected surprises, blood sweat and beers and at the final unexpected hour... great tentants saw it a few days ago and signed a February 1st lease!!

If the way you verify facts is any indication on how you screened your PM...You are in desperate need of a new PM...

I know that one cannot go strictly by the 1% or 2% rule, and that more detailed analysis is required...however, at least for screening the hundreds of possibilities, I'd like to understand whether ANY properties in the Minnesota MSP/metro area meet even close to the 1% rule, let alone the 2% rule. 

If you want to make your blood boil and your stomach churn, have a read through this article:   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...