They are the rich dads when they sell that crap to you, and you will be the poor dad if you buy into that crap.

At a minimum, you need to call and mail out to your 300 closest friends/acquaintances/relatives/whoever, plus order 2000 business cards and start passing them out like candy. www.Retechulous.com (Josh Schoenly) is an agent marketing company that I've heard good things about (and no, I have no connection to them whatsoever).Might also want to google "real estate agent forums" to talk to rank and file agents, though 99% won't know crap about investing, if that happens to be a particular interest of yours.

I read other people having a similar experience but that it's a crap shoot if they accept the 2nd appraisal or not.  

They even produce a welcome letter or denial letter with all the legal crap written in if you deny an applicant.  

That will let you know how much you will pay to dispose of the "crap".

It's a different situation if the tenant is being deliberately damaging, such as throwing a bunch of crap (no pun intended!!)

I personally would much rather deal with non urgent matters on my own schedule and would be annoyed as hell to have someone calling me about stupid crap while I am trying to work.

no no no, stay away from that crap.

I took the crap a few years back when the Sox won.Yeah can't believe Kerry Wood plunked a guy on his first pitch of the season.I might be able to direct you to some loan resources locally.

I know a guy a saw recently pitching a seminar here in Texas was full of crap and flat out lying to the people in the free  1 or 2hr intro.