After the house is occupied, the best, most cooperative tenants may be willing to show it to replacement tenants that you screen if you make that part of your agreement when the initial tenants being leasing.

Wow, that is an amazing track record, thank you for sharing.

Your tenant is also responsible for all your costs associated with finding and screening a new tenant.

He wants to buy the property himself but he says needs about 1 year to clean his credit record to get a loan.

Private money will do it sometimes, depending on the deal and your track record.

Buying at top of the market with no track record of knowing what to do "when" not "if " unexpected expenses pop up could likely hurt bad.

I have stopped answering phone calls and resorted only to written communication (for my records) but have noticed a pattern of very emotional and aggressive behavior from this tenant (as well as extremely unreasonable expectations about what the timeline is to have something fixed).

You just need to keep a record of all contributions and distributions in the capital account ledger of each members.

She's been sending me some good leads and helping me to screen the neighborhoods.

I set up the account, put the money in it and mail a copy of the deposit documentation to the tenant (for their records).