In order to encourage tenants to get renter's insurance, we have been contemplating instituting a $50 monthly fee until they provide proof of renter's insurance with the owner listed as an additional insured, but not sure how well that would hold up if we ever had to evict. 

@Samuel Coronado, @Elan Adler  Entire subdivisions of build to rent put more pressure on local landlords because the big institutional investors can afford to buy tenants with low rents and free initial rent period.

THAN institute the new GOOD management, and process going forward.

Our dollar is losing value so you need to be with a solid operator in institutional assets that cashflow in markets while hedging inflation with tax benefits. 

Basically, there went good 30YF financing, both for you (should you ever want to refinance) and for your pool of buyers (should you ever want to sell).A house that can't be institutionally financed with good 30yf rates is going to lose a LOT of resale value.

The pref layer is a third party institutional player.  

He wanted me to paypal him 750 so that he would send the 20k needed to bridge the gap in the loan.While Facebook can be great to connect with institutional loan officers, mortgage brokers, etc.., true private money is a little more difficult in my humble opinion.

They are billed as "a scientific approach to single-family rentals" and use "institutional grade property management," which usually means they are a tech company in real estate and likely either don't have the existing property management relationships in each area or you chose an area where they don't have enough units through Roofstock for the PM they chose to care.

As a professional property manager, I'm coming across an interesting trend related to institutions providing financial assistance for tenants who have trouble paying their security deposit and I would love to hear feedback from the BP community.Large PM companies have begun partnering with financial institutions, such as Rhino Insurance, to help tenants who struggle with paying their security deposit.

Finance institutions long well received them.