For those who are unfamiliar, PadSplit is an affordable housing tech startup that provides a house-sharing service for working people.

Good luck to you and the other people on here that are investing. 

These people EXPLICITLY do NOT want to sell their house.

If so, that's your prime market to start in because you have a competitive advantage of boots on the ground you trust of personal knowledge.If I were you, and new, I would not do fixers, I would buy turnkey or rent-ready properties or you are going to have to trust a whole lot more people to do what you want to be done.

A lot of us hit the forms just to help people.

I can’t make someone sell their property, some people will not be reduced to a dollar amount.

Most people have a mortgage on their home when they sell it.

I'm just more familiar with people quoting gross rents and typically assume the cleaning fees are being paid by guests. 

Ideally you'd be there too (or a manager if you had one) as that is best practice in my opinion, but being remote you just have to outsource everything to people you trust. 

This seller feels like he has a good position to turn down people who need to finance.