IMO you are exposing yourself to potential problems by not controlling the property as the owner.

If not, I agree with others that if you can, you should find some source of income...especially something that exposes you to investors, or any aspect of real estate.

Because of groundwater ingression via the backyard (another issue altogether), tenants have had to pull up the laminate flooring, exposing the original vinyl.

If the home were heated with heating oil or propane , when prices spiked this winter , would you have reduced the rent?

@Katharine Chartrand Since I am viewing with my phone the check photo is a bit blurry, but you might just be exposing enough info there for a thief to compromise your account without stealing a physical check from you.

When you find a property that's listed with an agent, it's already been exposed to 10-100 times as many people as you would expose it to.  

On the other hand, it should expose you to investors for future projects. 

I was over 50 when I first was exposed to REI.

On the current patient, they aren't releasing her name, how will people know if they were exposed to her if her name and picture are not released? 

Issues of fraud and deceptive trade practices certainly apply to commercial transactions, crossing lines can lead to other criminal charges, wire fraud is a popular charge applied as funds are usually transferred, if the mail was used in connection with the activity, mail fraud charges may be brought.When people don't have business experience or really understand underlying financial matters and try to be creative because, for one reason or another they can't perform under usual and customary practices they expose themselves greatly to scrutiny, it only takes a complaint to the right person to uncover mistakes.