Roy,I am not surprised your incident rate is lowest.I don't have a problem renting to foreign students.In general they will not skip rent.

I restructured the loan, skipped a month’s payment, split the payment to match when she is paid, and off we went.

With language barriers this sometimes proves to be quite difficult, but going through the proper channels is essential for any closing.If you skip a title search and later on it comes back with title issues you really would have screwed the buyer.Closing costs shouldn't be a problem.

I bought my first property that I wanted to rehab and sell, but I had no luck, so it became a rental three months ago. I just went to collect this month's rent and the house was empty! Compounding the issue is the f...

100$ bucks a year is 8$/month... just skip lunch once a week and you got it covered.. haah.. i dont think thats enough to worry about, even for resale purposes, i dont think anyone would flinch at that.

They broke up and he skipped town over 5 years ago and he completely stopped making payments towards the mortgage.  

Its possible I would only hold the California properties in a trust and skip the LLC (but cant I change the beneficiary without any public filing?).

Should I just save money and skip the inspections? 

If a tenant comes home at a time when they are usually away (i.e. a class was cancelled or skipped) and overrides the programme in the thermostat to raise the temperature in the unit, they frequently choose the permanent hold of the override (because it requires less input then selecting a duration for the override) and, subsequently leave the house.  

Skip the suitcase/receipt drama act.