Tenants are not smart enough to have these complicated things in their rental units!!!

Seems like this dog could teach the supposed "Blue Dogs" a new trick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XivhwO_zWWg

That because they didn't buy smart, not because they bought in California.

guess its not very smart but I dont check credit...i assume all rents have below avg credit, if they had good credit, they would have got a house back when they lent everyone money.

There are a lot of smart people here (Rich, Will, Jon) plus many more that deserve credit.

Smart landlords check everything, then double check it.It takes me a minimum of 2 hours per aplicant to screen an applicant all the way to acceptance.

Use whatever you are using to pay your rent now, and rent out a room to a roommate, and use those funds to make the payments on the credit card.I don't mean this as an insult, because you strike me as an outside-the-box thinker, and smart.

Question-- We want to leave the country without worrying about our properties, so which is better...leave the job to someone who is smart and we trust OR to some staff person at a property management company?

But a reasonably smart landlord might not be willing to sell it for that price if he knows how to fix the problem and sell it a year later at a much higher price.

Don't take this the wrong way Allison but whenever I see your last name my thoughts go immediately to "Superbad"...and I think you just cemented that in my mind...lol Tim, I was just about to post a "Smart-***" remark myself... and then I saw your post...