@Josh Garden Depending on the market you can use the 1% rule as a sniff test before drilling in to calculate real numbers and run comparable with the market.

But I paid $125 to have an asbestos testing company come out and test it and it came back negative!

Have you done a Perc test or validated there is water?

The two above leases we decided to go relatively short term to test out the relationship with the tenant before signing them to a longer term lease, which we did with the current tenant at Property #1 .

I don't think a personal touch would hurt, I haven't tried it though so definitely test and let us know!

A large part of the test is vocabulary and understanding what to do in different situations (at least in NJ).

I was told by my GC that depending on the perc test the town could make me put in some $40,000 system if the water table is high.

The fact that they waited until the day before the rent was officially late makes it sound like they were testing you - looking to see if you came by anyway to collect the rent in person. 

Great, let's live "beta test" (after letting others deal with the "alpha tests") with a non-time sensitive vanilla W2 / 775 FICO owner occ SFR refi.

We are testing out Spokeo but it has proven to be must less accurate.