@Ky hills , Arkansas' laws are favorable to the landlord. I have 3 long term rentals, they have been good to me as I have been blessed with pretty good tenants. 1 has been with me 13 years, 1 stayed 10 years and recently bought his own home. I was not very happy with him though when I got to going through fixing things so I could rent again, several drain leaks and shut off valves leaking that ruined some stuff that had to be repaired as well. I'm going to do a better job with random inspections to prevent things like this. I have another tenant that has been with me I believe 7 or 8 years. The one the guy just moved out of after 10 years, a former tenant from 8 years ago from one of my other rentals moved into, they have been trying to rent from me again since a year after they moved out of my other rental. All 3 rentals are within about a mile of each other and about 3 miles from my house, makes it convenient to do repairs and check in. They are also in a good area with good people which keeps undesirables from wanting to live in the area. If a tenant is a pretty good I try to keep the rent reasonable so that they will stay long term, turn over costs money. To make money in rentals, you need to be pretty handy and also know a few people that can do things when you can't. I'm not sure how landlords who hire everything done ever make money. I do my own HVAC, electrical and plumbing work and generally hire out carpenter/handyman type stuff because the hourly rate for that type of work is cheaper than the previous trades I mentioned and I like doing the other better than the carpenter type stuff.
Wife has an uncle that in recent years has moved from Oklahoma to Arkansas.
He has some rental property not sure if any is in AR or not but could be.
We have had a very mixed bag as far as renters go. Had some good folks stay with us for 7 years. Got to be friends with them, they moved out a few years ago. The lady had a son that had bought a house so her and her husband moved out to go live with him and help make the payments. Tried to talk them out of it to avail, like we predicted that didn't last long and they wanted to come back but we'd already rented it again.
At that time we were too low on our rent price and I'd say we had several hundred people inquiring about it.
We thought we'd narrowed it down pretty good, but the people we rented it to the last time hid some stuff from us that would have maybe had us pass them by.
Man smoked and we preferred nonsmoking but anyways he was throwing his cigarettes around and in a potted plant not putting them out and it caught fire and burned the house down.
We've had a some crazies in that house in past. One family that was there had a child/teen that was evidently messed up into some bad things as well as drugs.
They'd been talking with my mother about him and sone of what he was doing. I was getting nervous when going over to feed cattle, I was actually afraid he might try to shoot me. I'd been noticing a couple cats around with broken tails injuries, and always wondered if he'd had something to do with that. It just seemed odd to me.
We evicted them for not paying rent. They had eventually paid but it was a situation where you had to keep after them and might be a month later. The grandmother and her husband at the time that was the one that actually rented then moved her daughter and grandson in with her was a mess of her own. The man eventually left her we'd always had trouble getting rent from them.
After the grandmother died, the daughter was on drugs and no way she would pay rent so we gave her a chance but saw it wasn't going to work. They left without incident but we had a mess to clean up as they left a lot of junk.
When we were cleaning out the house. Some of the folks helping came to me a said you got to see what's up in on of them rooms. There was some sort of drug thing they called a bong and the disturbing thing was a bunch of stuffed animals hung with nooses from the ceiling with real knives in their backs.
Later I found some disturbing writings on some of the outbuildings, turns out my concerns of that young man were probably closer to right than I thought.