If you have nice furniture, huge big screen TV, high end cookware, etc... but your bed is uncomfortable or your sheets feel cheap, your guests will come away with a bad view of your place. 

My advice is to make sure you do a thorough tenant screening because they may be there for a while. 

Here you will meet wholesalers who provide deals and all the cash buyers (rehabbers) you will need.Consider checking out HUD homes for small multi's owner occupied gets first crack.

Can a window crack due to very cold exterior temperature?

Use www.postlets.com to advertise and then vet tenants by going to BP resources and use the tenant screening provided.Most important to contact prior landlords personally as they really can give you the best info on prospective tenants.This whole process doesn't take much time and I would rather take the responsibility of tenant screening than to abdicate what should be your responsibility.It's not like rental agency is going to give back fee if you get a horrible tenant who stops paying and needs to be evicted so might as well do it yourself.

This technique often leads to a management nightmare as they, or the management company they have chosen, are not prepared to properly screen tenants and manage a rental property in a distressed community.

Here you will meet wholesalers who provide deals and all the cash buyers (rehabbers) you will need.Consider checking out HUD homes for small multi's owner occupied gets first crack.

Upon removing them from the freezer we were surprised to find that not even the brass fittings (or brass SharkBite) fittings had cracked.

That is where good screening and impeccable references come in.

From what we have read the IRS is cracking down on that.