He left without paying he trashed the unit had all the utilities out Put in My name which I I was unaware of .he had all the carpeting ruined punched the walls repeatedly .

@Mary lou L.I'm 54 yrs old.My father passed away when I was 21 and my brother was 20.Parents had some properties that we had to tend to.We  1031 exchanged some into other properties.Bought personal homes and then rented them out after moving on.Didnt get real serious about building wealth until 2006.I was 45 yrs old then, realizing retirement yrs were right around the corner.We accelerated real estate investment to retire comfortably.Accumulated 8 more rentals,flipped some,and started private lending.Yes I wish we were more aggressive in our 20's and 30's.But we didn't have anyone or BP to to teach us what or how to do it and why it was important.Lord knows our educational system did not teach us about wealth building for retirement.We learned it ourselves and and a lot of times it was the hard costly way.So in order to keep history from repeating itself we are consciously trying to educate our children and other youngsters  on the importance of financial literacy and the implementation of that knowledge.Father time stops for no one and doesn't care how you spend your life.It's up to us to create our financial future no matter what age we start.Good luck to all us old farts and young farts.

Agent has the responsibility of pushing the sale through by calling the bank frequently.

Building cash flow and selling in 5 or 7 years and repeating?

Process of elimination, in our area we frequently trench the area put in some drain pipe and divert the water flow away from the problem area.

Repeat as necessary.

I now tell all applicants repeatedly that if they do not have the full move in money, we will find a different tenant.You need a strong pet clause that says that no pets are allowed for any length of time.

So when they rip out their fixtures and leave the place gutted it will turn off a lot of future potential tenants.You only know this if you're a landlord or in the commercial leasing industry long enough to see it repeatedly.

Frequently we can horse shoe an action we desire but later run into a consequence for which there is no escape.

They are frequently out doing things an rarely in their living space.