The other new form, Automatic Clearing House (ACH) Recurring Payment Authorization, enables tenants to pay their rent through an automated clearing house (ACH), so they needn’t bother writing a paper check every time their rent is due.ALSO, new in this 12th edition is a coupon which the first purchaser of the book may use to receive free of charge all of the forms in the back of the book in common computer formats, PLUS a trial version of “Pushbutton Landlording®,” the author’s stand-alone program for handling the tenant and income sides of rental property management.Make sure you have a good software program so that you can keep tract of rental income, repairs, etc. 

So the "red flag" tenant(s) would go immediately.If you have good tenants, and the security deposit still bothers you, an option might be addressing it immediately.

In my low income areas I don't even bother checking credit anymore as everyone is going to have bad credit.

we had plenty of those agents, we also been fired by them, very frustrating, they take offers very personally or they just don't want to bother for such low commission, or they claim that we are ruining their relationships with other agents.....rediculously stupid, i know.find another agent and put in your offer.

Yet it doesn't bother other people/tenants to steal from us or take advantage.

Some houses even have their mail piling out of their box and I'm wondering if that means I should not bother wasting my paper and just go for the call.

She has no place to go because she gave you notice and then didn't bother finding an alternative. 

not sure what the return is I never bother to run the math but I know we are making some nice profit here. although lumber sky rocketed and I bet we will pay 200k out of our 2 million in lumber over runs..

I wouldn't bother with a separate phone.

My intention going in to the deal was to BRRR the property so the vacancy did not bother me.