It showed up on a popular website a short time later as available for rent.

The area I rent in is popular for the younger professionals and grad students.

The 5-1 has bene the post popular in my area and one that I made most often, besides the 30 yr fixed, which tops the list.

$100,000 seems incredibly high for a rehab on an apartment.

With a mid-to-low income tenant, I would say that you're incredibly LUCKY this is your only issue and to let dogs-- err, dog crap-- lie for 1-2 days.

Graco & Titan are both popular with painting contractors.

But I do have a comment on the "popular poster" award.

Outdoor BBQ's are very popular in AZ but they do not add much value and everything to do with them is expensive.

While all of these things might help your chances of finding solid tenants, there are bad tenants in every price range, and every neighborhood, so screening is always incredibly important.

But I guess, maybe it's a good thing - because it's making people fearful of investing, and thus they are staying out of the game and leaving more for us :) It's true, most of the books were written during good times - because that's when investing in real estate gets popular - and smart investors begin slowing down.