Real progress comes when you trust your people, stay close to the numbers, and focus on strategy.

We embrace S8 applicants, but screen them just like any other applicant.Many have an entitlement mentality and try to leverage their S8 voucher by pretending to be helpless:1) A percentage won't apply because they expect a landlord to waive application fees for them.2) Many cry broke and expect a landlord NOT to charge them a security deposit.3) Many of those same S8 tenants trying to avoid paying a security deposit, won't make an effort to call the list of nonprofits we send them that will pay their security deposit if they apply.4) A lot of them try to avoid paying for utilities.

Love the community and the people in it.I bought my first property, a single family home, about 18 months ago.

I agree more people need to inquire. 

What rates are people seeing in the market?

Would love to hear any feedback about other people's experiences. 

You see the same people posting the same post every few days trying to get some inexperienced people to pay them for their knowledge and no moderator does anything about it.

What's your favorite way to apply leverage? 
Using whole life insurance was a big unlock for me; pairing it with the right turn key provider in the right location adds a nice passive layer--interested in other creativ...

We embrace S8 applicants, but screen them just like any other applicant.Many have an entitlement mentality and try to leverage their S8 voucher by pretending to be helpless:1) A percentage won't apply because they expect a landlord to waive application fees for them.2) Many cry broke and expect a landlord NOT to charge them a security deposit.3) Many of those same S8 tenants trying to avoid paying a security deposit, won't make an effort to call the list of nonprofits we send them that will pay their security deposit if they apply.4) A lot of them try to avoid paying for utilities.

I came across this article from Kellogg Insight showing how online sports betting is eating into people’s savings.