Unless they are on the poorer end renting furniture from Rent-a-Center they aren't likely wanting to pay to rent someone else's furniture.

I’d simply ask in what situations where the broker and the brokers firm did nothing to facilitate the sale do you think you should get paid a commission?

Quote from @Mario MoralesMorales: what if he got a HELOC, used the funds to get a property, then cashout-refi the new property and pay off the heloc?

He will take anything of value, leave all the trash, and not pay you a dime.

If your paying cash to buy and rehab then refinancing I get that.. but your still paying for two closing costs.

But if this is a one-off, it's probably better to pay a local co-host who already has the local connections.Talk to @J.

But to date, I've just set my rents at a rate that accounts for me having to pay the water bill - and informed the residents that each year I'll increase the rent based upon my expenses (including water), so keeping the bill down helps me to help them.But one problem this could cause is if increasing the rent to cover the water bill then places your rent above the market rate.

We let prospective renters know what our criteria are prior to them paying $55 to be checked.

We got out of condo conversions couldn't really sell any of them and transitioned to ground up development of single family homes and three story walkup triplexes on a build to rent model which is much easier for us to manage and our exit isn't a sale it's just a refinance. 

Otherwise, you won't have the additional dollars to pay future inflated prices.Your rental income must last as long as you do.