Before allowing any tenant possession to your property, make sure you have accurate information from their application - cell phones, emails, work addresses and phone numbers, emergency contacts - and take the time to update them when they change.

IMO, that is a small price to pay in order to double or triple my investments (plus, the extra cash flow per month beats the big fat goose egg I got every month from my Vanguard Roth IRA and brokerage account). 

Those two complexes we are spinning our wheels and we need to cut the fat.  

Or T-Mobile Store vs maybe an unbranded cell phone retailer.

What has always worked in good times and bad, and what this COVID left bleeding, and what's getting fat now.

I would share it here but I am on my cell phone.  

Everyone knows that bank-owned properties are like discarded cell phones. 

On the other hand, I get big fat goose bumps over a relatively simple $55K purchase, $10K rehab, $90k appraisal, refi most of my money back out and $1050 monthly rent.

It's all those poor people who aren't able to save and instead spend every dollar of income on rent, the cell phone bill, Netflix, a flatscreen TV, and the car payment -- these individuals are stimulating the economy (by contributing most directly to GDP, which is 70% consumer spending) at least as much as wealthy people. 

Small beans (within the range of $1200) in most scenarios of buying a house or car as you stated in the OP.Agreed ... if you are parking literally millions of dollars short term, then maybe you worry about this, but then again if you had a few mill to park short term you sure as heck wouldn't be asking the question on BP.Trying to squeeze a few extra points while parking a few thousand and you are wasting brain cells that could be applied elsewhere to make some real money ... you are probably stepping over dollars along your path to try pick up a nickel.