"I fairly, and in good faith offered to pay 2 months rent (over 50K) to a landlord for a place I was never going to step foot in due to a global pandemic that took a severe toll upon the residents of NYC, gave timely notice to attempt to try and re-rent, while getting TJ and now living in Florida for rehab, and the landlord tries to extort me for 250K while leaking this story to the media, and I'm the bad guy?

We will be pre-screening future potential tenants via a Google Form, an idea we found here on the forums and have already put into action.The potential tenants are a younger couple, are "very interested" in the unit, applied to our listing on Cozy within an hour of viewing the unit and each purchased the credit & background checks as well.The couple currently live separately from one another and they're now looking for a place together.Brief background on the girl:- Non-smoker- Monthly income meets the 3x rent requirement- Background check looks clean (SSN Trace, Civil, Sex Offender, Global Watchlist, National - all are Clear)- Credit score meets the 620 requirement- Credit report looks okay with the majority of her lines of credit showing as currentBrief background on the guy:- Non-smoker- Currently unemployed due to the coronavirus situation- Background check looks clean (SSN Trace, Civil, Sex Offender, Global Watchlist, National - all are Clear)- Credit score does not meet the 620 requirement- Credit report looks horrible (no lines of credit are current, and plenty are in collections)Our thoughts & concerns at this point, and I'm trying to place weight on those where we should and lessen the weight where we shouldn't:-The girl seems to be friendly & polite, her parent's live nearby, and her credit/background checks indicate that she's relatively financially responsible.

If it completes it’s global ride and dies or diminishes, people will forget a lot and get back to booking Airbnb’s and hotels alike in a big way.

I believe rents will grow over the course of a 10 year+ holding period due to our normal supply/demand issues here, typical inflation, as well as (my perspective) further inflation due to increased money supply eventually working its way into the real economy.

Bathroom: Best to do it as close to the drain pipes, supply lines as possible – getting the slope required is cheaper.

In the last month or so I’ve received tenant applicants that would like  to supply their own credit reports?

All that I'm asking is that if all people see this, that you would supply me some suggestions on how to make investments in actual real estate or any recommendations for beginning off.

Clearly demand far outweighed supply.

If you look at what is happening on the basic economic idea of supply and demand we will see an rise in both property values and rent values.

If not more competitive you have more end buyers.The Supply is 10-fold, and less cash needed because my purchase prices are much lower.