Verifying last 2 years of rental history and income extremely important to find the “best of the worst”.

How can I make the company liable for making this mistake and now passing the bill over to me?

@Zackarias Aitchison FYI -- Webinar on 6/18/19: "Common Mistakes Made by First-Time Syndicators" by Gene Trowbridge and Jonathan Nieh

In our experience, the #1 mistake landlords make when selecting a Property Management Company (PMC) is ASSUMING instead of CONFIRMING.

@Vitali Ganon Recommend exploring as many sources as possible to get referrals AND cross-reference them to get as much accurate information as possible.Check out NARPM.com, BP’s Property Manager Finder (BiggerPockets: The Real Estate Investing Social Network), etc.Also, encourage you to learn from the mistakes of others - by reading posts here on BiggerPockets about owners not having their expectations met by their current Property Management Company.

And someone jumping into this as a complete newbie can expect that they have a decent chance of making some expensive newbie mistakes.

The worst ones usually don't have any clear cut guidelines (a lot of the underwriters will make up their own rules if they do not like the deal), Suck at communicating (will reply days later), Push aggressive terms to get deals in and then switch them, and Not really motivated to get things done (they will adverse a loan without any hesitation). 

I still cant figure out how to get a picture off my phone and on to a computer LOL.On the flip side your take down of Clayton Morris saved unknown numbers ( hundreds ) of investors from making probably the worst financial decision of their life.. so for that alone its worth 20k upvotes.. :)

Most of the mistakes above I made.  

Like dead heirs they can get releases from, or mistakes in the contract made by an agent/buyer/seller.