I have also joined the local Middle TN REI group and have signed up for several classes coming up in the near future.

Hi, @Donna Ivy, Notes, in general, can be quite inexpensive to purchase.

The 6mo lease followed by m2m seems VERY reasonable to me.Certainly better than them getting ticked and just taking off unannounced in the middle of December.....

Sounds you knew which house they were going to look at, then jumped in the middle?

There is a small fee and a middle man.

I would never jump in the middle, and would always ask if they have discussed the issue with the pm.

Your clientele will be the lower end of the middle or upper low end.

Is that top of the market for rent, in the middle, or bottom??

I am going to talk to the guy hopefully by the end of the week and see if he won't meet me in the middle somewhere on the price.

Then I got side-tracked by a career change that involved significant travel for about 4-1/2 months, at the end of which my wife and I welcomed our first and second children into the world (ask me sometime about getting "the call" while out in the middle of nowhere in Pennsylvania).Perhaps it was the podcasts, perhaps it is the new work environment, perhaps it was the realization that in 18 years I'm going to be paying $$$$$ for two college tuitions simultaneously, but I have shifted my focus away from strictly buy-and-hold to a phased approach.