Portsmouth/surrounding rents are quite high - multifams in Psmouth absolutely don't work.Manchester has a bit higher rents from what I can tell.Not sure if you have applied the 2% screening technique to what is on the market.

Does she pass your screening criteria by herself?

Real estate investing has been around for thousands of years and very little has changed.We'll be going over the specifics on these deals, how they were found, how they were pre-screened, evaluated, and negotiated, including the exit strategies for TENS of THOUSANDS of monthly cashflow and quick cash profits.You can get all that for free on BiggerPockets and without a high pressure sales pitch designed to separate newbies from their hard earned cash.

We missed the deadline on the form, thinking our ‘real’ deadline was to have the screen repaired by Spring as the job of a window screen is to keep bugs out when the window is open (but since when do you apply logic when talking about the government).They held 2 months of rent based on ‘faulty property’.

Rich, The 2% Rule is just a screening tool - nothing else.

Then screen carefully so you don't rent to destructive deadbeats.You can get vandalism coverage, but my experience is that the insurance company always has a good reason that they don't have to pay vandalism claims.

See http://www.ericscc.com/search and enter your screen name to see how you rank.

You can get someone to screen the houses/sellers, but you are still going to have to go out on the odd Saturday night because "My ex is getting out of jail tomorrow and I need to sell this house now so he can't find me."

The closest you can get to that would research threads about screening process for tenants.

.* Start screening property managers ASAP, assuming you're buying in ATL while you still live up north