On average, U.S. companies last only ten years.

Companies like this make our whole industry look like used car dealers.

Ask 3 or 4 companies that work with the size and type of deals you're analyzing and you'll likely pick up some themes. 

The tenant signed the lease with the property management company about a week ago.

How does it address situaitons where occupants either have a fake lease or got scammed by someone posing as the landlord?

I'm about to start a team of callers on these lists, but I don't want to waste their time or my time with these dead leads.I'm thinking of charging back the expense with my credit card company because I'm pretty disappointed.Does anyone have any solutions they'd recommend for getting accurate property owner phone numbers?

Each firm has a sister company, Doss Docs and Lightning Docs, respectively. 

And eventually or even now, go to Real Estate Events all around Chicago, most of them are free and you can find the events on Meetup.com or Eventbrite.com (my company also hosts a lot of events every month that are free @A&N Mortgage which you can find on Meetup.com).Good Luck!

this is mission impossible.. although you might have some fake lenders approach you looking to steal up front money from you.. so be careful. 

I do NOT rent to any real estate agents, brokerages, or property management companies as they would be a competing business and it wouldn't benefit either of our businesses to share a building.