When it comes to copies, do you tend to keep that information in a filing cabinet, a safe, elsewhere?

The key is not being pretty but serving the intended function of your clients.People by nature tend to want to mess around with things too much.

This isn't always a foolproof method as I'm sure anyone that's been in the business a while will tell you.This helps for peace of mind and more often than not gets the job done smoother in many cases as most GCs hate having to work around another laborer for small jobs....it tends to cause more of a problem in the long run in many instances.As for buying right to limit the risk of purchasing a bad deal -- make sure you have a good agent or someone with experience that can show supporting comps to you from the MLS, get multiple bids, and also look at the competition in the area.

I think some brokers expect their clients to already know this, I tend to think newbie investors don't know this and need a little guidance.

Many people on this forum, myself included, tend to be very conservative with numbers and consider appreciation to be gravy.

"People like people that are like them, and tend to not like people that are not like them".

With this current market they tend to be willing to take less.Contact the bank's loss mitigation department.However I would not mess around with lease optioning back to the seller.

I tend to agree that the best thing is to let the complaining tennant move, complete the improvements and charge more rent.

I'll play the cycles, buy low, sell high, then switch asset classes because they tend to cycle out of phase to one another. 

I tend to like to work with people that come to me as a referral.