I am attaching here a picture of the lease, of course keeping in private some information.

I'm looking for ways I can "protect" this private lender. 

Hi James,You should be able to find a local bank or you could work with a private/hard money lender.

But this was for everything he owned, home builds, syndications, private businesses, medical centers, etc.  

STRs sound like too much work to me.Portfolio income = stock dividends, interest income (from banks, credit union etc), Master Limited Partnerships (Form K-1), Business Development Companies (Form 1099), bonds, interest earned from investing in a real estate debt fund, interest earned from being a private lender

If it was unforeseen medical debt, and you've made progress in straightening things out, you might find a private lender to work with you for an eye-wateringly high interest rate.

So it isn't a complete waste, you would simply need to follow the strict reading of the law with no private clauses for consideration...I'm not sure how that plays out since technically if the lease is void, so is the tenancy meaning you could terminate anytime and not wait for the original lease expiration...I'm sure that's covered somewhere, but again I'd ask my local atty what to do given this is such a locally specific issue. 

I have done Private Money Loans on auctions in the past.

Am I allowed to use a private investigator to do a background check on potential tenants, WITHOUT letting the potential tenant know?

He is "the" KGB master strategist, what he was able to achieve through strategy and guise is only paralleled by Adolf Hitlers rise from private in a jail cell to Fueler.