When you screen a tenant, can you (the landlord) choose to have the tenant pay utilities or are there rules/laws that prevent this?

Continue to network and get educated on the processes necessary to be successful (analyze deals, make offers on deals, screening tenants, managing properties).

Bottom line: “When it’s all said and done, 2021 will go down as a year when housing affordability went from bad to really bad, especially in mid-sized markets,” per Apartment List’s Rob Warnock.

@John Hamm I can’t speak to Cleveland but the Atlanta market right now is extremely competitive and prices have gotten insane, it’s doable but it might be worth looking at other medium sized cities around Georgia.

Everybody gets screened with the same level of scrutiny.

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For house hacking specifically, SCREEN WELL!

I have no idea how they screened and the monthly amount it still lower than what I planned to ask. 

Officially converting a single family to Multi Unit is a lengthy process where you might end up with nothing.I would call zoning and get more information on the area. look at you lot size etc.... 

Can you give a description of the size of the project?