She owns a PM company and she is also a licensed contractor because she was tired of GC's ripping her off. 

Purchase price: $187,000 Cash invested: $15,000 Sale price: $259,000 I got tired of moving place to place and worrying about finding roommate, security deposits and not having enough money to deal with maintaining someone elses home.

Purchase price: $187,000 Cash invested: $15,000 Sale price: $259,000 I got tired of moving place to place and worrying about finding roommate, security deposits and not having enough money to deal with maintaining someone elses home.

If someone isn’t willing to provide ID, they are not a serious applicant and possibly a scammer, so it’s a good screening tool to weed out the tire-kickers and sketch balls.

Quote from @Jennifer Gill: I'm really getting tired of people calling me when my number is on the DNC. 

And not filing reports for slashed tired is lazy and it also decreases the crime stats for the area.

Many investors feel the same way.

But when you start getting into the thousands of dollars on this stuff it just feels predatory. 

Like @Collin Hays said, it is being driven more by neighbors tired of poor STR owners not keeping things sorted.We only look for places in vacation areas with a long history of owner driven STRs vs big cities and the like.

If the seller says, “Oh no, feel free to give us an offer”, then there is your invitation.