Account Closed  I use Buildium and it has its own credit check / background check tool.

Once you accept this as part of being a landlord and view your home as a "tool of the trade", although and expensive one, and that this is a business of damages, repairs, fixing up your home, evictions and doing it all over again and again, only then will you be a true landlord!

Such investments can be a powerful way to grow your IRA, but your IRA is not a funding source for your own personal deals.

Home Depot makes a $40 weed whacker that uses the same 18V battery I have in my power drill, so the frustration associated with maintaining it is minimal.I would second the wood chips, fake grass, and would also throw in pebbles or gravel.  

@Bianca Garrett,The best learning tool there is = experience.

Simply get a Power of Attorney from the seller to be able to access bank accounts regarding that particular property only.

My plan was to get the house inspected and use that as a negotiating tool to satisfy a lower price because the family received the house through and death and just want to cash out quickly.

Unless you want to file employer taxes on them, give them benefits, tools, unemployment taxes when they quit/get fired, liability insurance, safety equipment etc etc.

Remember that after filing, whether a summary probate or a formal probate with full IAEA authority or limited powers, your seller will be solicited by others (maybe even me!).

@Jerry Powers Welcome to BP active status.