😜)Sometimes the money I bring may be enough to buy the whole place, sometimes it will be the deposit, but in either situation it makes it real.Second issue, Fear.The biggest fear I always encounter is the fear that the debt owed against the estate will somehow attach to him/her personally.I find articles from attorneys that most closely meet their situation and while explaining to them that, “unless they personally signed for the debt, they will never personally responsible for the debt.”

So, the terms of your lease should be catered to that, with very strict insurance terms, personal guarantees behind any company signing your lease, requirements that lessee handles all repairs and maintenance, additional security deposits, and I would go so far as requiring minimum review quality for the host, limits on quality of guests they can accept, etc.And to your point about Airbnb not doing background checks, you are right.  

Normally the tenant will initiate their payment, it will take 3 or so days for the payment to withdraw and another 3 or so to deposit into our account.

That is, of course, beyond the security deposit that we have used.

That is actually how they are making money to buy their multifamily properties....by scamming YOU out of the money they need for a deposit.

"The bidding starts at <60% FMV>"4) After you get some bids on Sunday and the open house is over, you start going through the bidder list and calling everyone bu the highest bidder offering them to outbid the highest bidder.5) You repeat step #4 until you bid up the price as high as you can.6) Meet with highest bidder and take a non-refundable deposit (specify this as a "condition" of the bid auction). 7) Close.The idea here is if the highest bidder flakes out, you still have a list of other bidders, everyone just $500 or so lower than the highest bidder.

Would that just be a check or deposit in the bank that we can then use to pay down our Heloc?

Did you already return their security deposit without checking for outstanding bills on the property?

We can generally look past the number of pets as long as their is either additional deposits or a rent increase per pet.

I'm going to be depositing my checks and if there are repairs I'm going to take it out of this account.