How to  manage the  psychological roller coaster of investing in real estate with no drugs.

You get your deal, and it alleviates any concern they have about you being a serious buyer or your offer being in their ballpark before they spend the time to gather those documents.

Collecting a TIN after the payment will not alleviate your liability to the IRS for this.

Drug related activity and they had  been partying there.

After the first month we found out that timely rent payment was a problem for at least a third of the residents, payment was viewed as entirely optional by several, and we had at least 2 residents with serious drug problems.

My company puts a time limit on evictions but the time limit is forever if the eviction is related to drugs or certain other felonies. 

Could it be drug money?

Some people turn to drugs and alcohol to escape.

Anything weird (especially floor plan) can totally screw you because it will look very good when you are looking at comps, but will bring in much less in sale price than it "should" on paper.As a flipper, your job is to alleviate anything strange or ugly and sell it ready to go for the new buyer.

The first property we bought was a duplex, both tenants were felons one for armed robbery the other for drugs had to eventually evict both sides for non payment.