Had one guest stay for 2 weeks and they apparently paid with a fraudulent/stolen credit card, VRBO approved the payment and stay.

They will happily throw you under the bus to make them look good, by turning you down.I have a client right now and Newport Beach, California, with $45,000,000 cash liquid in Wells Fargo bank and can't qualify for a $200 secured card with capital one because a series of incorrectly reported mortgage issues (that I will get deleted).

The issue I have is that I have some credit card debt thats holding me back making it very hard to save for capital for a down payment.

Tenant also showed up at court without a lawyer, showed a lawyer's business card (claiming his lawyer) and requested to have a jury trial.

I don't even have a credit card yet, but I probably should to start building credit.

So I started with making a few play around business cards on vista-print.

So find out if he even has an interest in selling first. if he doesn't want to sell not much you can do but make sure your business card is on the desk.Good Luck!

Doing REI full time is at least 10x harder than punching the w2 time card.

offering to cover realtor's fees, provide gift cards, etc. 

You make yourself the manager of that LLC, you move the money from the IRA custodian account into some business checking account, and you, as the manager of the LLC, have a checkbook and debit card etc. for the LLC account.