He's an ideal tenant with credit above 750, well above our income requirements, and has a clean background with no evictions/felonies/etc.

Your method makes sense for my higher rent units, but I'm not sure if it makes sense for lower rent units, which I'm already requiring first, last and security? 

I tried a passive method of door knocking with the letter pass outs but maybe I need to be more aggressive. 

CLeaning? 

Willing to clean, paint, and help in any way that I can to learn. 

If it stops majority people then I will take your guys advice and stick to good, clean locations.

You can build your model up to be much more complicated, I use the BRRR method so mine accounts for a few extra variables that I’ll mention later.3.Prepare your data.Running lots of scenarios does not mean that you get to skip on the due diligence to understand your costs.

My question is this; how can I find a trustworthy cleaning person?

I figure I'll need at least 10-15 homes to get to my monthly cash flow goal but I see two different methods to attain this.....get the homes paid off (fewer purchases and I'll be helping to pay off the loan) or use 30 year loans (more purchases but I will not be helping to pay off the loan). 

I imagine the best method to sell without breaking the lease or doing a "cash for keys" arrangement is to sell to another investor.