The vast majority are owned by large corporations and won't talk to you even if you do manage to find a name and phone number.

A vast majority of my acquisitions come from a combination of private investor funds and my own capital. 

Maggie Jones It is true that your market is vastly different than ours.

It sounds like you probably didn't do sufficient due diligence on this guy and/or don't know him well enough to predict how ethical and trustworthy he is.

If they don't know how to arrive at sufficiently good answers - THERE'S their answer! 

But for the average Joe, we aren’t set to inherit tons of money from our family, we tried the stock market but we’ve ended up with average 7-8% returns, maybe some of us have great ideas, but we don’t have the connections and/or the network to adequately fund our business ventures.Raising money to purchase a home is relatively easy for the vast majority of people and in some cases can be shockingly affordable.

This is how we found a vast majority of people we now work with. 

Without a deposit you fail to meet sufficient consideration for a bilateral contract.

The current owner's tenant screening criteria and yours may be vastly different.

@Shannon K. if the ARV is sufficient enough to cover your renovation and CC, then the short answer is yes.