That's excellent work on your part.You should have a pretty good idea of how much work is actully requires to operate these properties.

I guess I've been lucky, the tenant/applicants I've seen so far have been excellent, so I wouldn't assume that renters are necessarily all or most of that 20% at the bottom of the credit pile.

If you need a good attorney, I have an excellent one who is very reasonable; Michelle Ghidotti-Gonsalves, Esq.

I've had some excellent tenants as well.

David - You seem to be doing excellent job of finding GREAT deals!

Excellent post.

He said that in that price range people with excellent credit, etc would normally just buy.It is being shown again today at 3:30 so barring anything with that, I am leaning towards renting to the young couple with first + last + the normal deposit (one month).

I am thinking to do real estate investment and building new homes is one of my options.I had been reading your excellent postings in BP and learnt a lot.

My investments are in the Houston area but Dallas is also an excellent choice!

I have no trouble whatsoever allowing them because my properties are in an excellent area, just outside of DC, where there is no lack of high quality, well qualified tenants. good tenants + a high demand/expensive area = no problems with pets in my experience.I think if I was in a different location with a different type of property, however, I might think twice.