sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CEkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liveinnewengland.com%2Foffice%2FStandard%2520Residential%2520Lease.pdf&ei=QCodU-bMC4jS0wGKjYGoCw&usg=AFQjCNGtfgjGTOpqFNxkmoQiXGCQhtqOzA&sig2=Y8q21tV4EX8iwaG7nVe20g&bvm=bv.62578216,d.dmQI add some addenda to mine (minimally make sure to get a copy of the Lead Paint disclosure) but this is the basic lease I use because people are comfortable with it.

I prefer Butterball most everywhere, but agree with Jerry and you might read some more on BP concerning turnkey sales, there are many bad players out there. :)

It was such a refreshing change of pace to go from fighting against hard competition with SFRs (the kind of property everyone and their mother is chasing after) to land (where you're basically the only player in town).Choosing the right niche really does change the whole game (I probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere if I hadn't figured this out early on). 

Also house type, square foot, basement, garage, lot size, and things of that nature are big players.

There's a group in Los Angeles that can provide 'tenant screening credit checks', but you give a FICO score as an input and they grade the tenant as A,B,C,D,E,F.You see zippo of the real data and only a broad-brush classification - - that's worthless IMO.

Thry are also surrounded by class C/D SFR's.  

And that picture is mixed in with half a dozen other pictures of my friends hunting dogs in one particular unit.Oh, another property of mine has several autographed 8x10's of me and local celebrities, former NFL & MLB players, national champion coaches from the college, semi famous musicians, radio personalities etc. 

.), but I was married so, that didn't work.I started buying tapes (remember tapes, they'd get hung up in your tape player and wouldn't work anymore) on real estate investing, I took many seminars from speakers from a-far, digested dozens of books on investing and experimented creating buying offers using creative techniques (had to, had no money).I became an agent (that wasn't fun, but I did well) selling residential properties (that job diverted my energy from investing to driving around potential buyers), and earning almost nothing for my efforts.What I did not have when I started was a computer, no email no real estate chat rooms, no pagers, cell phones and no internet, Bigger Pockets wasn't born yet.I use to have to go to the court house and assessment office in person if I wanted to know who owned what, I use to run foreclosures after getting the information from the legal pending filing.I remember the first cell phone I purchased, it was call a 'bag phone' it was as big as a shoe box.

No, these are not C/D class rentals.

You can drift farther away and be on the outskirts of the C/D neighborhoods but then you'd be in the same scenario at Temple.So did you end up making the purchase.