Another screening source I've had good luck with is at https://www.tenantbackgroundsearch.com/ With students I'd definitely recommend a co-signing agreement with the student's parents.

My parents were small business owners, and so am I.

With yearly tuition increases and college housing costs going up, parents and students alike are always looking for new ways to bring in money to help pay for college.

Even if you got a bad house and did not flip, but re modeled and made its value jump and then rented it I could see that being very profitable, that land is what is important, because those parents want to give their children the greatest opportunity.

If you filed it the neighbors will receive notice so they can come and support or oppose the variance since it indirectly effects their property, and then the council/board/commission will vote on whether or not to approve it based on both the effect to the neighbors, and the overall effect to the city.In my area there are older neighborhoods like my parent's house that have SFR that all are on R-2 lots.

Our only goal in war zone properties was to get decent people out of there in one piece and on to a better life. 50 years later we still get thank you notes or in one case the best sweet potato pie ever made ever from the kids of one couple that were just babies when we dealt with their parents.

Most of those part timers have some other source of income (full time job, spouse, child support, rentals, investments, parents (just saw the movie Parker), etc...).

I am a complete RE novice, my parents own various properties and have developed RE but they aren't will to share their knowledge with me, they prefer I "learn on my own".... they agreed to go into business with me as a partner and have allowed me to use their credit under their supervision if I fork up all the cash used in the RE deals.

I've found that renters with large dogs tend to have less turnover, and meeting the dog and making sure it's well-trained can alleviate a lot of the worry except the scratching of hardwood floors, which is a given (slightly more damage than parents who let their kids use their scooters, skateboards, bikes, etc., all over the hardwood).

Their parents wanted the convenience of writing one check a month.