@David Dachtera: one more pro that having a license would give someone: the ability to view properties listed on the MLS, or perhaps even from a private seller with a lockbox, without having to involve another RE agent.

I hope I'm not abusing this website by asking from my (tenant's) point of view.

I definitely agree on your views of money.

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I have collected some initial data and presented on research that is based on tenant self-reports, but I am now interested in getting real-time business data.I am looking to collaborate with a larger scale landlord(s)/property manager(s) who are interested in helping me collect unidentified but matched data on screening outcomes, screening decisions (acceptance/rejection of tenancy), and basic questions about how the tenant behaves and your view of them as a good/bad tenant.My hope is to build a data collection process into at least one, but hopefully a few, screening processes, and collect data over a year, resulting in a research presentation/paper I can share.If anyone is interested in talking more about this, please PM me.

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Even less so if you can't even view the credit reports and are just relying on the Smart Move computer generated recommendations.As their current landlord, you already know how at least two of them perform as tenants.You already verified their income is substantial, more than enough.... that's good.No legal history problems... that's good.Simple fix for the collections.... verify that the collections are valid and have the tenants set up a payment plan with their creditors.

Hi, I see that this question has been asked before but I can't view it unless I upgrade my account :/ Pretty dumb right.

My view is there are some good investments and some marginal ones but they seemingly have a decent track record of paying off.