Every household is getting 1000's.

If I was guessing, I would say that there may not be a firm agreement inside the household on whether to move or not and sometimes if one party is less motivated than another, it causes deals to backfire for little things.

Benjamin Graham (Warren Buffet's mentor) "The Intelligent Investor" is most comprehensive investing book I've read.  

PLUS on top of that they will also in may be getting 1200 a person and 500 a child, so if you have 4 tenants living in a household 2 adults and 2 children that would be 2400 for the adults and 1000 for the children for a total of 3400!.

Two of them are household names.

I'd recommend LLCs for each entity and consider that you and your boyfriend are two separate households until you're actually married. 

I'm curious to know what people's reasons are for when they will agree to purchase site-unseen vs. when they won't buy unless they see it (let's assume that in either scenario there were comprehensive photos and property details provided).

Without a World War, our nations, states, cities, and households are in a lurch.

What you have to understand is people have lives and they'll need to move: for school boundaries reason, to downside, to go to new colleges, there will be newly formed households, also with people in close quarters they'll observe that maybe their accommodations are not good enough, too big or too small. 

Baby Step 1 – $1,000 to start an Emergency FundBaby Step 2 – Pay off all debt using the Debt SnowballBaby Step 3 – 3 to 6 months of expenses in savingsBaby Step 4 – Invest 15% of household income into Roth IRAs and pre-tax retirementBaby Step 5 – College funding for childrenBaby Step 6 – Pay off home earlyBaby Step 7 – Build wealth and give!