I told him to give them an offer of $96k half hoping they wouldn’t except, because that would drain all my savings for the down payment.

I lived in the house alone until this past November I rented out half of the house to a few renters. 

It's 50-50 in the neighborhood, that means half have already made the upgrade.

You should have no issue getting 4-5 k limit if your credit is half way decent.

I'm a first time landlord, I rent out half of my house.  

My husband and I have a 4bd, 3b doublewide with abt 2500 sq ft. sitting on little over half an acre.  

The ground floor of the townhouse is a concrete slab half covered with parquet and glue, and half covered with damaged carpet.I'm going to rip it all up and do luxury vinyl planks.

This question is about screening tenants and also how one goes about showing them the property.I've typically had a property manager, but am looking at my first more turn key property in a GREAT area that I'm excited to get locked down.For other rentals that I own, I've had my property manager find the tenant for which they charge me half of the first month's rent.  

She is VERY busy this time of year, but you may want to reach out know and ask if she provides a half hour phone consultation.She's who everyone goes to when their first CPA got their complicated Real estate taxes wrong.

One of the things that I have found helpful is listening to the Podcast (I have listened to half of them already starting at the first one, GR8 stuff!)