But the reality is that you'll occasionally come across bad apples, despite them looking good on paper. 

Even if you bring down optimistic rent expectation in Charlotte, NC area, it still seems like a good investment on paper.

I will definitely look into the numbers before anything and make sure that what he says actually is matching with what's on papers!

Hi Tim,I think the opportunity lays on his pain point "has not had good experiences with tenants" maybe if you offer security an assurance in this area he will go for it.It think this would work on me and more so if it was written on paper.

Land lords need to create a paper trail of tenant issues, before moving to evict.

I wouldn't consider them the only method for investing, but in the short term have found them to be more lucrative in returns than all of my other paper assets consistently.  

We could not officially sign the papers until NASB turned over the money, but NASB would not turn over the money until we had signed the papers.Fortunately, we were able to get a short-term loan for the balance, officially buy the property, get the NASB mortgage, and then pay the short term loan back within a very short time frame.Now I want to buy another property with another friend using SD-IRA's and I don't want to go through the same process.

Oooorrrrrrrr, talk to the seller and agree to put his name on the other property (have a good lawyer draw up papers) on a first mortgage spot in exchange for him financing the down payment too.

Do not cut any corners to make something look better on paper.  

What is the most efficient way to find probate leads if the local papers will not give/sell you a list of notices?