I used to use another service for tenant screening but recently started listing my apartments on apartment.com. Well the SSN and birthdate are partially obfuscated when looking over the applications. Do you suggest no...

We have an old hospital not far from where I live and it's been a vacant eyesore for over a decade, costing the county more than a million dollars a year just for security. 

Retailers like supply stores won't refer you to vendors because they don't want to alienate their customers. 

A bigger factor is local supply and demand which has to do with the popularity of an area and how it might change. 

I wouldn't buy a place just for this as this will just be a flash in the pan.And it may not even get the flash anymore because with the STR secret long made mainstream by now, what happens with these compression events is that all the locals leave town so they can put their place up for rent and it floods the market with insane supply that way outpaces demand and kills the premium rates that used to be driven by a supply shortage.We saw this recently for the NFL Draft and Super Bowl. 

I’ve had 2 slab leaks and 2 toilet supply lines explode in 25 years.

pid=2182Houston Real Estate Highlights in May, 2025: • Single-family home sales increased 6.8% year-over-year• Days on Market (DOM) for single-family homes went from 46 to 50 days• The single-family median price declined 1.2% to $339,425• The single-family average price was down 0.7% to $438,230• Single-family home months of inventory expanded to a 5.2-months supply, up from 3.9 months last May• Townhome and condominium sales declined 12.9% year-over-year.

I will be managing remotely and would prefer to hire a company to set up everything from furniture, to bedding, to initial supplies. 

Just be sure to include the added expenses (utilities, wifi, cleaner, shared supplies, etc).

In this case you have plenty of time to secure a replacement by July 1st.