Before she moved in, she did not ask us about any accommodation, her room is small so cannot fit a desk (she brought her own TV stand for her TV in the room).

I screened several engineers and chose the one that was experienced and willing to do the "drawings." 

Specifically, savings around retractable awnings, grow lights, seating and screens.

We still have other applicants we could screen in the meantime, and a steady stream of calls from other people who still want to see the apartment.

The quality of images you can take with a cellphone is great...once downloaded on your 32" desktop you can go full screen and zoom in to see excellent details, documenting your findings.

The platform offers screening at a nominal cost and has a fantastic marketing feature that blasts out our listing to 20+ search engines (Zillow, apartments.com, etc).  

(I will post the before and after as well as more info about the property and purchase price etc. in another thread) I went through an extensive application process, and finally chose a tenant after about 3 weeks of screenings and I am happy to say I am currently in my first month as a Landlord.I am hoping to continue investing and gaining knowledge by using this site as well as linking up with other investors.

Using the tax package I am using, I am running into the following questions:I get this popup from the tax package:Special StepsIf this activity was a passive activity in a previous year and you're carrying forward losses from the activity to 2015, or if you sold or disposed of part or all of your interest in this activity or property used in the activity, follow these steps:Click Show Form and then Whole Form (or just Whole Form if the form is showing at the bottom of the screen).Scroll down to Part IV of the form, "At-Risk/Passive Activity Questions."

The tenant has to know above buying the kids fancy shoes, paying the cable bill, paying the expensive car note, buying new clothes, new tv, vacation, concert that if rent isn't paid they will be homeless.Condition the tenant to screw everyone else if it comes to that but you get your rent on time or they are out.

His picture was on the front page and he was on TV news.