I'm able to leverage Charles' experience and connections to have a lender to talk about down payment options, a property manager to discuss tenant screening and how to manage your property, and a very successful investor who started his career by house hacking.

It works and you can't get your money without discounting or bad blood

Unless you plan on bidding site unseen, you'll spend most of your time screening potential leads, viewing several, and then maybe putting in 2-3 offers at a time.

No payments = eviction.I've never heard of a landlord re-screening long-term tenants.

Why not make sure all the windows open and have screens, and offer to rent them a portable AC for $25 a month additionally($300 portable unit pays for itself in 1 year).Fenced yard may get you additional monthly pet fees.

However, as you grow and add more properties, it becomes much more cumbersome to use a larger bank, because you are only a name on a computer screen and they really cannot offer any deals on account fees and other cash management tools you might need.The smaller community banks will work with you to customize your banking account packages to make sure it works specifically for you. 

The seller agreed to a showing, the prospective tenant loved the place and cleared screening with flying colours. 24 hours later she had paid first and last month's rent in full and signed the lease.

The 'rule' is as everyone else has stated just a guideline / quick screening method so that you do not waste your time.

They also posted on their facebook page Tuesday that they now offer screening, but their website doesn't really talk about it much as far as cost and whatnot. 

I would not let them stay unless they qualify as any other tenant, including paying the application fee and being screened, and then have them added to the lease.