I'll see what they come back with...And yes, Angie's List is horrible IMHO.

The first property I bought was a four unit building located in a rougher area of Milwaukee (not extremely horrible).

When we've had to contact him a couple of times for repair issues, he always got back to us the same day and often had a contractor out at the site within 24 hours to fix the problem (and these were not urgent problems).On the horrible property manager side, I recently helped my sister get into a short-term condo rental.  

I've not had any great experiences with prepaid rent, but I have had one extremely horrible situation that taught me to never except prepaid rents ever again.  

Horrible stories....great lessons...

It is a violation of Sec 8  If you do it, and if the tenant ever wants to, they can report you, and you will be kicked off of Sec 8, and never be able to participate in the program again.In addition, many of the Sec 8 tenants are horrible tenants.  

He was worried what kind of repercussions there might be for being a reference for her, because when they broke up, she was a horrible housekeeper, bad at renting, he usually dealt with the landlord, and just in general, bad at the whole apartment thing.

It's a horrible habit!

I'm in a similar boat- great paycheck- horrible job, lost family and friends along the way (which reminds me to live life while I can)... 

But, if you don't, you'll have much less "normal" wear and tear that you can't charge tenants for.The second red flag was a 19 year old son (usually problematic age), then the daughter living with dad - okay that happens, but the daughter's boyfriend is moving in, too - until they break up, of course.Then I saw that you would have to rely on the BF's income, who will be most likely moving out when they break up.Then we move on to horrible credit and lying on the applications.You are blessed you have so many legal outs for this potential nightmare LOL!