If they give you approval that interest must be returned to the tenant as you are just holding "their" money.

@Eric Kahn Gale if the pipes aren't having pressure issues I would not spend any of your money replacing them!

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And then she had money to send. 

He has been a great tenant which is why I do not want to “kick him out” just to get more money from someone else. 

Because the cosigner is not responsible for mowing the lawn or reporting maintenance issues, they have no rights to the rental, and I don't want to communicate with them about anything but the money. 

I don’t necessarily come from much so I adamantly believe it takes money to make money in real estate.

Never flipped before.If you take out a HD loan and say your construction estimate comes in at $100k.Eventually the actual estimated construction costs only cost you $90k.When you take a draw does the bank give you money based on receipts/invoices?

You will then have a few options with that rent money....you can put it into principal or you can start saving it to purchase yet another property.

It will get more complicated if you're borrowing money.