I don't think she would suggest something that would put her in the poorhouse at some point in retirement either.She would probably have some ideas, but I want to come prepared.

I have been hunting for a flip in a market that has huge potential, the problem is that the inventory is poor.

She wanted to sell but was unable to due to poor house maintenance.

But I also wouldn't want to go to the poorhouse to do it.

Distressed - low rents or poor housing conditions.

@Carl Rowles we screen all tenants exactly the same, but know several of our local competitors cut corners to attract more S8 applicants - waiving application fees, security deposits, etc.You can try to weed out applicants that have poor "house maintenance" skills by doing surprise zoom calls and asking them to show you their kitchen, bathroom and another room.

Its not putting me in the poor house and I'm still stashing some money away to purchase and investment property and don't want a damaed crdit score when that time comes.

Outside of getting a partner to help, I really don't have any creative solutions for you that won't leave you in the poor house at the end of the day. 

They all have different prospective tenants, and demand.A leveraged vacant property is a one way ticket to the poor house.  

I'd say do that while still hunting but I suppose if you're comfortable enough with the entire valuation / purchase process it could wait , one big thing is that you can go overboard with rules that wont help anyone - keep it focused but give yourself room in the lease , you'll have folks on month to month anyway so its not going to be hard evicting bad tenants but if you start nitpicking you'll evict yourself into the poorhouse (depending on the market of course)If the tenants paying and they aren't bothering anyone else let it slide (in most cases)