Make sure you have amenities that a traveling provider who might be working night shifts would want like access to good coffee and black out shades. 4) check out your competition on Zillow and furnished finder and make sure your rental stands out and offer some unique amenities.  

Integrate your own name, your girl's name, or something you are particularly obsessed by? 

It's very easy to go upside down on a property these days--and nobody wants to be the guy (or girl) with $300k into a cashflow negative property that will only sell for $250k.There are better, less less complex and less risky strategies available to beginning investors (e.g.; house hacking)--I'd suggest studying up on those techniques!

I had a chance to assure her that it was not in my intentions to kick out a "rent paying drama free" tenant.One girl was upfront.

Because of their lack of credit history (hers) and previous credit issues (his) I told them within a few minutes that I would not be able to rent to them.They asked if I would consider a co-signer and I said I had never considered doing that before and I would have to think about it and of course it would require the co-signer to have excellent credit.They came back with the young girl's Big Brothers/Big Sisters mentor that has known her since the age of eight.

Parents should be the lender of last resort..........parents bail you out for $10k when things go wrong, its what you do for your kids, they may shout at you, but they will usually resolve the problemWhen you need $10k, when the whole world just went black, you need someone to turn to, keep that someone as your mum and dad.

Everyone likes to throw around the black swan event an example.

This way if there is a disagreement, it is pretty black and white.

Like mentioned in a post above, there really isn't a black and while answer on what is best for you.

Just wondering if anyone has invested with the Black Swan Team and how their experience has been to date.