If you come to Detroit get in touch with me. 

And your #3 touches on Marketing. 

No AI, no software no gadget, no magic pocket list, no nothing.The only way to reliably and consistently get in touch with motivated sellers is for YOU to make it extremely easy for THEM to find YOU!

However, I think your question was more about the latter: making sure the security deposit is never touched until it's due back to the renter.

Yes some things will require the personal touch.

Would love to keep in touch. 

If any of the proceeds touch the sellers hand the IRS sees it as taking profit and you will have to pay taxes on that portion.Net proceeds - Is the net sale, minus any Equity in home being sold.I find a lot of investors who want to purchase less than their reinvestment requirements will do the calculation to see what their tax burden would be if they purchase less than they sell.

You need to get in touch with a lawyer if you're looking to  evict.

The way I'm looking at it, if my spouse and I only do employer matching for the 10 years we would have more than enough in there and still 10 years out from being able to access it.I do plan on doing 401k loans for deals if the numbers check out, and I've considered rolling over some of our 401ks into roth IRAs to access our contributions but we'd have to pay taxes out of pocket (a big hit to cash flow) and we couldn't touch it for 5 years.  

Thank you so much Julia, will keep in touch appreciate your feedback.