My lease spells it out clearly.A wise landlord friend told me that if it's not a habit for them to be late, just let it go and be happy when all the rents are in by the 4th (with that one exception).

That's your best bet.

A good way to calm her fears is to approach the LL (a letter if she is chicken) and simply say that she contemplating on staying and renewing her lease and ask the LL if there is any problem in renewing under the same rents and conditions.I'm going to bet that since nothing has been said that nothing will be said and that the LL would welcome the inquiry.

Your best bet is to go to the public face or your local mls or hire a re agent. 

I bet a lot of you didn't know I had my financial licenses to manage retirement funds and investments when I had my Allstate agency.

My bet is the guru's do it to get multiple streams of income. 

Talk to an accountant before betting on this.

But I bet you could find many more that succeed locally than out of state, and more that fail out of state than do succeed.

We try and put low cost kitchens in our rentals, mainly because tenants have a habit of beating the hell out of them.

BUT, if the area is showing all the homes over 300, while it's off, you can bet it's not a 125K neighborhood.