You can upgrade to the gold package with them so the skip tracing is included.

The criteria varies with each market.. for some markets it has to be a 3+ bedroom + pool,  for many places it's absolute gold to have at least a mother in law suite but best to have 2 or 3 small units, etc etc..There are a ton of seller finance opportunities here as well (not many actually advertise it but they're open to it once you chat with them).

There's plenty of gold in there!

There can be gold in knowing their social handles, both for screening prior to approval and to attempt contact if they disappear. 

Your list of questions for the lender is a gold mine! 

Just like when someone wants to own gold, silver or platinum.

FX, Crypto, Flipping Houses, Sub2, Gold and Silver, Rare Earth Metals, Day Trading, Bernie Madoff, Vending Machines, Car Washes, Amway, any MLM.....whatever the dream of the day is.In all of them, you can make money, you can get rich, but almost always it takes a lot of hard work, blood, sweat, tears, missed holidays, working on weekends, money, risk, stress.

It is house-hacking gold haha.I want to chime in about the property location.

Investors receive % annual cash flow, increased deprecation benefits, refinance distributions, with long-term generational returns.Since they're focusing on multifamily units here in California I don't if it would work for you, but applying the same equity harvesting strategy is gold, imo.Congrats on retirement btw!!   

Concept2 seems to be 'gold standard' out there.