January tends to pick up, so if you can get ahead with marketing and photos, you’ll be in better shape.When you start screening tenants, pay close attention to any prior rental-related debts, open collections, or bankruptcies...those are some of the biggest red flags you can catch early.For leasing, get your listing on as many platforms as possible (not just Zillow), and respond fast to every inquiry.

. ;-) Good catch! 

The catch is most want to see 4-5 Exits in the last 3 years.

Give the existing tenants a 4 year "window" to catch up to market rate.

Small extra cost, but it’ll make a huge impact compared to the 4 inch countertop backsplash- make sure when you inspect the property to be incredibly thorough to make sure that you catch everything that needs to be addressed.

These are most time consuming, more capital intensive, and demanding to catch up to speed quickly to get to profitability. 

The guys at the local Builder Association were not doing enough volume that I could catch them at the right time for a slab pour. 

I know that because I have to deal with them every day.But your agents also deserve some blame @James McGovern for not catching that in the pre-approval letter.

It’s how you catch the 70%+ of applications that contain some form of income misrepresentation.Screening is where you make or lose money in this business.

So if you pulled $100k you will end up with 60-70k, which it will be very difficult to have real estate surpass returns of 401k that much to catch up a 30-40k head start with your 401k