So it will be a boarding house with 8 strangers living under the same roof sharing common areas?  

There are other ways to do this, just don’t let a stranger have the deal if you can do it.

sometimes it is as simple as they do not want a lot of strangers walking through their house  Often there are multiple reasons the seller chooses off market.  

I've dealt with deeds forged by family members and strangers and generally investigated them the same way. 

The narrower your focus, the better.If you lend to out-of-state strangers, require two appraisals (I really know HMLs who do), credit reports, bank statements, W-2s, income taxes, 2 weeks to fund if you’re lucky, and then hope to obtain 8% on a 75% LTV, then you are almost indistinguishable from most conventional lending criteria.

IssueLast week, our Ring camera picked up Z bringing 3 strangers on our property.

Now if it turns out the tenant is a poor family member that’s one thing, but few people would give strangers $8,000/year on purpose.

You're far more likely to learn the ropes or find a partner by rubbing elbows with people living the life daily rather than trying to connect with strangers online.

Finding a mentor is more difficult because nobody wants to pour a lot of time and energy into a stranger.

A stranger knocking on the door saying the house is being foreclosed, saying he's going to be the new owner, and offering me cash to get out in a month or to give me their rent money.