Think of all the things that could go wrong and see if the lease addresses them: unauthorized pets or tenants, early termination, security deposit, lease violations, late rent, eviction, lawn maintenance, parking, etc.5.

If you allow pets (which i usually do not), you'll have a wider selection of tenants. 

We cleaned up all of the exterior, to include mold removal, pressure washing the driveway and fence, removed all flooring in the house, put down engineered wood flooring, new carpet, new stainless hardware, all lighting was upgraded LED fixtures, new paint, Crown Molding, painted wood toned cabinets a light color of Gray, cleaned the air ducts from all of the pet hair and used a lot of order mitigation What was the outcome?

We cleaned up all of the exterior, to include mold removal, pressure washing the driveway and fence, removed all flooring in the house, put down engineered wood flooring, new carpet, new stainless hardware, all lighting was upgraded LED fixtures, new paint, Crown Molding, painted wood toned cabinets a light color of Gray, cleaned the air ducts from all of the pet hair and used a lot of order mitigation What was the outcome?

On bright side there maybe some additional income (laundry, pet fee, etc)Please add the following to expenses:- In additional to vacancies, there could be concessions, Bad Debt, Loos to Lease.

You should be our of within 60 days ish 2) Social Media - Post the contract (only date) and call them out here along with everyone in their company food chain.

Just secured a tenant with 2 pets $1310/month.Lessons learned?

You can add things like no pets and non smoking if you wish too.

I was fortunate to have my parents help get me through college while I also worked summer jobs to pay for housing, food, and fun money leaving undergrad debt free.

I would not call it "succession planning" as I am not yet planning to turn into worm-food, but you have a good point in the sense that I am planning to slow down, semi-retire and only have the real estate to "play with".