Even if the tenant walks in on the second day of the month and tells me they can't pay until the 13th, I remind them they will still be charged late fees and I will still start the eviction process on the 11th.My standards are in writing and equally applied on every tenant, every time. 

Rents will go up and your biggest mistake was to buy a nice house in a desirable neighborhood.The real threat is buying in the hood, leveraged up to the gills, maybe even with hard money, tenants are bleeding you dry, while you are writing checks to attorneys and contractors.Milwaukee is getting a lot of attention lately: cash flow is still better than most places and appreciation is stable at 5-8%.

If you continue to write offers (10-20) and NOTHING is still landing, you may want to go back and look at your underwriting or, better yet, have a more experienced Chicago investor take a look at it.Where and what type of properties are you making offers on?

Windows should operate properlyIf other appliances don't work well, if there are slow drains, if you have leaks, faulty outlets, etc - this is what you will keep running back to the house to fix.If you have lived there for some time, take a piece of paper and write down some of the things that really bothered you while living there.

You take on the role of digging deep into their pro forma and grading it like a teacher instead of writing the paper yourself. 

Hey John, Sounds like you need to talk with this person and question them on the benefits of real estate and what you can write off for your situation.

Also a few more positive reviews from our clients have been deleted from this thread (again), so I stopped requesting them to write transparent reviews on here.

I'm not one to write reviews but for some it's worth it.

I think it is very difficult if not impossible to write a lease from scratch and get it right - experience in both representing landlords and tenants over time leads to better and better language.

You will need their bank account information to setup an auto-withdrawal.Do not ever give your bank account information to the tenant, however.Make sure you have this in writing, and that they consent to it.I see you're in California.