Thanks Daryl for the encouragement I think that a lot of people come here just for that :) I do value opinion.J scott Haven't you been watching tv China is bringing back the woolly mammoth by cloning its dna so next I can ask for a dragon....lol I am being serious they are doing it.

So, in his mind, it paid better to sit on his keester and watch TV.

I've gotta potential tenant whom I am meeting with tommorrow to go through the screening process my plan is to check their background, criminal, and eviction history.

have him go thru all the screening like the tenant .

tenant screening ?  

The plan was to live off of one and take the other one to invest, so if all of the buy and holds were vacant we could pay the mortgage with that income, so no pressure to take a bad renter or have any concern about missed payments, giving us the ability to screen better and have better less drama, then take the income from when they are rented and pour it and any extra on the one with the smallest mortgage and take that and roll it to the next smallest, rinse and repeat, because a paid for rental will cash flow like a mother and with no risk of foreclosure.

Too many AMC TV watchers who can't find a "deal" and think that notes are the same as the ugly foreclosure down the street.  

If you have screened your tenants well, it allows you to have vacancies in a planned and timely manner, such as in the summer rather than Christmas.4.

You'd just better make sure that your property manager has a great screening program and doesn't hesitate a second to act against late rent or other issues.

.: F1, F2, etc.) is pressed, or whenever a screen pops upon your monitor.