Hello Hnu, welcome to the Buffalo investing game! 

@Sridhar D. that's a strange reason unless the tenant needs to fix their credit or save up for a down payment to qualify for a mortgage.If so, I wouldn't hold my breath that they will perform.

The trick is knowing how to play the publishing game.

my goal is to hold as many properties as I can.Thanks in advance!

Investment Info:Townhouse buy & hold investment.

Most STR owners joined the game during/since COVID and does not know what normal looks like causing newer owners to panic and drop rates to rock bottom (4 bedrooms with indoor pools during spring break art $229 a night when the Holiday Inn Express is $249 a night).

Going Direct to the listing agent: If the purchase is low risk, such as a house less than 10 years old in a neighborhood I'm familiar with, and it aligns with an investment strategy I've used multiple times before (like short-term rental, buy and hold, or flipping), then yes, I would consider going direct to the listing agent.

Clayton County needs to get this in order but I believe its being done on purpose.Every time there is a judicial hold-up ( and I mean that in both senses of the word) like this, it is intentional.

I have already posted it on the myhousingsearch website, but is it just a waiting game from here on?

Allowed a tenant to pay deposit and first month's rent via nonprofit which meant he had little skin in the game and he became a nightmare.