Word of advice/caution: Stay away from the TV gurus and those who are primarily gurus and not investors.

But it sounds good on TV to the lemmings that don’t know any better.Plenty of buying opportunities are yet to come.

My first few screenings I used the biggerpockets/transunion screening tool.

I wouldn't mind seeing Christine O'Donnell on TV though.

They are being screened to rent YOUR property.If you feel like escrow accounts are necessary or you have some sort of law to abide by in your locale why not just set up a separate account at your bank?

I'm able to leverage Charles' experience and connections to have a lender to talk about down payment options, a property manager to discuss tenant screening and how to manage your property, and a very successful investor who started his career by house hacking.

Unless you plan on bidding site unseen, you'll spend most of your time screening potential leads, viewing several, and then maybe putting in 2-3 offers at a time.

No payments = eviction.I've never heard of a landlord re-screening long-term tenants.

Why not make sure all the windows open and have screens, and offer to rent them a portable AC for $25 a month additionally($300 portable unit pays for itself in 1 year).Fenced yard may get you additional monthly pet fees.

However, as you grow and add more properties, it becomes much more cumbersome to use a larger bank, because you are only a name on a computer screen and they really cannot offer any deals on account fees and other cash management tools you might need.The smaller community banks will work with you to customize your banking account packages to make sure it works specifically for you.