In my own personal finances, I do work with a fee only advisor - I pay him a fixed fee out of my pocket based on net worth, and he doesn't collect anything for investment in particular funds, particular brokerages, financial products, etc.

If you buy at 373k, you're probably paying around 2,200 a month in mortgage.

Many of the properties in more desirable areas (and higher potential for appreciation) would allow me to pay just about the same that I am renting right now after considering every expense under the sun (PITI, vacancy, PM, capex, maintenance, etc etc).

Currently have tenants and paying monthly consistently.

In the future, do a court records search at https://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/If you had done that, you would have seen they have 8 failure to pay rent cases against them.

They can either download the app or use a unique url to pay online. 

The tenant proactively requested help in paying their rent2. 

Many times the tenant would not pay their portion of the rent on time if at all.  

… $1.2MWith head shaking, I responded that he didn’t just buy a $1.2M property from an old woman who was unable to pay her taxes for $80k.

You put in the terms of the lease, the tenant name and email and MySmartMove sends out the background check request and the tenant fills in all their information and pays for the check which is now $44/applicant.