It's time consuming but if committed, you would thank yourself one day for not parting with your $$ on huge educational ticket items.

Smart to pay off that consumer debt first.  

Once we tackled the student loans, consumer debt and auto loans, we started saving for a rainy day fund.  

I'm ready to use Rently once I have a vacancy, as the traditional way is very time consuming (phone calls and showings) or expensive (hiring a property manager).While I totally understand investors worrying about bad guys, and also understand the fact that when you meet someone face-to-face, you get a better feeling of who they are, but bad guys are capable of doing bad things regardless, and often times bad tenants look great face-to-face. 

My current job is extremely time consuming which is forcing me to focus my efforts. 

I share my strategies on doing that successfully, as well as the pitfalls to avoid, and its a bit controversial but we have our own little community here in BP of those who've done it successfully.

btw, check out the podcasts, they are a great way to consume massive amounts of info very easily.

Zillow is great, of course, but it is always best to hire a consumer reporting agency handle the background screening process. 

Just speaking from experience, we were approached by your group for our inventory in Q2 of 2015, unfortunately the fees to work with your group are just to great and not fair to pass this along to the consumer.

In Calif, there's consumer protection for the home owner once the NOD/NTS process has begun.