Just turn off all the water fixtures in the house and look at the water meter to see if it is spinning. 

Even then, it's not uncommon for tenants to spin yarns that they forgot and sent the rent to the previous owner and tell the previous owner that they already paid you.

I'd nail an eviction notice to your friend's front door so fast her head would spin, and do everything in my power to make absolutely sure that an eviction ended up recorded permanently in Prince George's County books, so that any search in the future would expose it.And then your friend would never be able to sign a lease in the USA to live in any apartment where national record checks are run on possible tenants.

Like you, I’m new to the investment world and there’s so much information available it makes my head spin.

If we was big enough in New Haven county to have our own employees on the ground, I'd smack them with a lawsuit and so many Interrogatories it would make anyone's head spin.

By not asking for POF they run the risk of spinning their wheels for nothing. 

Now I just watch the numbers (demand, population growth, price action, etc) and try as best as I can to parse the spin.

And I agree with most, better to have that quick conversation with a lender to make sure you are pursuing the right types of deals or price points etc before you get out there and spin your wheels making offers etc.

Work at saving money rather than spinning your wheels trying to do th enearly imposible.

So, if the first 3 deals were all 70/30, then your partner came up with additional capital for the 4th deal, I could spin up a new Series, and that series could have its shares held in a different split.As for saving all the cash flow, that's one approach.