They tend to target apartments in walking distance of their single family home via flyers and craigslist.

Always happy to walk through a scenario with you or chat about my situation! 

The only criticism I've heard is that he does not take walk-ins.With advent of technology, locality is optional. 

After a couple of times having people still walk away, I now require that plus a signed lease.

I'll try to give you some feedback in the order you asked it.1) We require a walk through inspection every 6 months for all of our LTRs.

Want to know if I am walking into a scam

I have a tenant that is going to be evicted and i don't want them coming back saying that I withheld any of their personal property, so trying to prepare and have something prepared for a final walk through. 

I even do my Lease Options through escrow to make sure the mortgages are paid and seller's don't walk with the cash leaving me a foreclosed property and no way to collect.

Honestly, I walked away from the workshop thinking they had underdelivered since they pitched it as a 3-day educational class and then spent much of the time selling more programs. 

An agent should have boots on ground and walked through hundreds of properties in an area, and sold them as well.