And we also charge for actual cleaning and damages, which usually translates into recovering about 50% of our turn cost.

Tenants usually find a way to push just the right buttons.

My guess is there will be far more avenues of help available because of Harvey.These services usually need the tenant to receive a 3-day notice to pay or vacate to help.  

Even motivated sellers won't usually sound extremely eager, since they are smart enough to know they should hold back.

There is no reason for you to go through all the leg work of finding these at times because the real estate investing community is usually very kind and can provide this info

I usually pay $0.389/postcard at their rate for 2001+ postcards, but they get even cheaper with more bulk.  

As far as building and extra unit in the back.

I usually have a realtor or 2 contact me on behalf of a client although all of my ads ask them not to.

In your ad you can't say that this property is close to "The So-and-So Church", or "Perfect for couples" or anything else that would show that you are targeting a certain type of people.I specify that income must be at least 3x that of the rent, and since my rent is on the higher end, I usually get better people wanting to apply. 

.- My goal is to follow Scott Trench's ideas in Set for Life and hopefully rent a room for under $1200/month to save some extra cash and use it along with my current savings to buy and house hack a duplex/triplex/fourplex in 4-12 months in the Oakland/Emeryville area.- I consider myself very handy since I have renovated my entire house 99% by myself and pulled permits.