Given the circumstances with the pandemic and all the negative news, I was surprised and encouraged by this outcome.

There are both state and local codes. i would encourage you to call your local building/zoning or code enforcement and talk to them, ask what their requirements are for licensing on certain projects.

James, that is a great, encouraging share.

Thank you, SteveI appreciate the words of encouragement! 

My biggest concern is that I encourage my applicant to first check their free credit score directly at Experian to make sure it meets our minimum score required.

But we didn’t want the basement to be that cozy anyways....it encourages applicants with WAY too many people trying to live in the house.

I would absolutely encourage exploring podcasts/forums/books to continue that education.  

I have 2 sisters as well who are recipients of my father's trust. 

It's a bit of a fine line because you definitely don't want to encourage tenants to call you more than needed, but that comes from training them later after you've built that critical initial rapport.

I like working with attys sometimes and some of them drive me nuts.If they're convinced waiving appraisal is a bad idea (which I can see), I don't know if you have much of an option if NJ encourages atty review (which is not a bad idea otherwise).