We've elected to do free screening to get a larger applicant pool.  

On the guarantors {as stated above, we do not use co-signors as it gives them the rights of a tenant}, we pull their credit history to ensure they are able to fulfill that rôle.We have a one-lease, one payment policy (keeps our banking fees down), so when we rent a house to a group of students we tell them to elect one amongst them to submit the rent monthly and they handle getting their apportionments to her/him internally.  

There's a cost/value trade off for everything and there is no point in paying more than necessary for the appropriate level of quality.This goes for replacement windows, doors, shingles, sheetrock, flooring, paint, electical, and HVAC and the professionals that install them. - well, maybe shingles are different, but my observations seldom exceed 20 years with shingles, so, 20 years is good enough.My experience is that contractors that do not have the capacity to perform well are more than happy to charge more than their skill and performance is worth and the uninformed consumers of those goods and services are willing to pay the charges - no longer by me.As to the price being the same for a rehabber as any other customer, that may be true for you and your business model.

My group in real estate is about my journey... the journey towards financial freedom where I teach the secret art of Pivoting the very same art that I used to literally reach our president...  

To take more personal finance finance/investing elective classes in high school.

As an added note, I have read a few questions and comments missing the finer point that an LLC is also a "disregarded entity" with the potential to elect to be taxed as an s-corp..

With President Biden's Federal Employer/Contractor Vaccine mandate, I will be losing my job December 8th, for not being vaccinated.

We have an election coming up with new folks that have plans to help change the way things are heading....but time will tell. 

In discussing real estate auctions, it is important to distinguish between a forced sale auction and an elective auction.

Given the recent slide of the CAD due to it being a petrol-currency these days, we've elected repatriate some of those earnings and get a 20% bonus along the way.A flow-through entity on the other hand will not give you the ability to control repatriation of income.