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It's not intuitive. 

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So, I recently ran a background/credit check on an interested tenant. BP Smartmoves recommends to decline this tenant, but on their payment history, they've literally never missed one payment. However, their partner's...

I find Redfins interface to be very intuitive, and better laid out than our MLS.I would however not ever use a Redfin agent, particularly as a buyer.  

This will be my FIRST interaction with someone replying to my letters and the realtor kind of throws me off. 

Some of the things that come into play include: school district rankings, crime rate, median income in the area, median rental rate, presence of vacant or boarded houses, overall condition of properties, % of homes that are rentals, amount of retail non-distressed sales to homeowners, # of Section 8 rentals, and your own opinion/intuition as an expert in your market.

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@Todd MossHi Todd - hard to say exactly as I'd think this decision will largely rest on an assumption / intuitive feel for possible appreciation of the property over time.