Since the majority of people reading these forums are small time players who only own 1-2 properties, most people are actually exempt from Fair Housing Laws.  

(The TK company may very well be a contractor.)As this is your first investment and you have never worked with this company, I don't understand why you are not getting on a plane today to look at the property, meet the players, look at the neighborhood, etc.

I agree they'd make all of our lives much easier (and probably less safe), but I'm afraid that's out of bounds with the type of project I'm capable of.

Most major players pull reports from AirDNA, EverBooked, and similar sites.

The most cost benefit way of maximizing your return in NJ  in regards to buying an investment is following NJ Transit and its stops whether express stops back into NYC or productive stops with good schools, rental numbers and communities for a longer occupancy of your tenant(s), Stop at Newark NJ at main station and pick up the train stops pamplets and indentify some towns you would be comfortable based on your capable pre-qualified buy in with liquid $$ and your debt to income can sustain.

This way you can judge what keywords are being eaten up by the bigger players and what keywords the competitors are not utilizing which goes back to getting an edge in the marketplace.So yea I don't really worry much about the competition.

When we detect an emergency over the text line, your tenant would actually get a call from our troubleshooting team to do a deeper dive when needed.We're hoping that this text capability makes it easier for tenants to send in issues and also makes it easier for Latchel to screen issues more quickly. 

I understand lending requires really knowing and trusting the people you work with, and buy to rent requires really knowing your own capabilities and those you work with.

I was merely providing an example of the capability to do something like that.

I anticipate this happening again, since she obviously does not grasp the concept of physics that is in play here.The other shelving unit that failed last month was a 5/4" wooden shelf with a 1 1/2" wooden rod for hanging clothes with nice hefty L-brackets (this shelf pulled the screws out of the anchors), so she has demonstrated the capability to stress and fail even the sturdiest of structures.