I require it every time to just see if there is potential to raise rents for my customers.

My primary consideration is - Will the property generate positive cash-flow within a few months of my purchase?

I am a finish carpenter specializing in high end and custom work, but just getting started as an independent contractor, so I am open to considering any type of work.

Forcing you to get a business license generates revenue and validates their existence.

And the state of those fundamentals in 2021 is ultimately far healthier, and that health far more likely to be sustainable over the longer-term, than the out-of-whack fundamentals from a generation ago.https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

The market is crazy in my area - I am looking to maybe sell it and buy a triplex in a different town to generate more income and maybe a little extra money from selling the house.

I believe he exerted so much effort to fix the issue both because I am a good customer and also because he is licensed and I could complain about a curb that is significantly waved. 

And I might have misread this as you were the seller not knowing which offer to take seriously; If you're weeding out tire kickers and those posing as cash buyers- you've already been given the best answers in POF and property desires/location specific criteria, also helps if they say their name (don't withhold) if they are calling into you for the first time and you don't get any red flags they are posing as something they are not (popular lead generating app has this issue at times as 'cash buyers' are simply looking for deals to wholesale)Hope that helps! 

Depending on what your monthly payment is you may find out that the house will not generate any income for x amount of time, orrr on the flip you may be able to generate some income after that first year.

Since most people in the U.S. use rental properties to generate supplemental earnings and are not in the full-time real estate business, it comes as no surprise that From 4797 rental property sales are nowhere near as common as the Schedule D ones."