References are just one piece of the puzzle, so I would never hang everything on it.

@Nicole Cotrino - If curious for context/comparison, my cap is 45 minutes on the first call if it's a referral, 30 minutes if it's someone that called me out of the blue (so, yeah, saying "Fred said I should call you" will get you an extra 15 minutes), and BPers honestly have some interesting questions and puzzles to think through (which I enjoy) so I've been doing 45-60 minutes for you guys more or less since I joined.My goal during that 30 minutes or so is for that consumer to understand more about mortgages and how mortgage financing works than they learned in the previous 50 nervous hours on google, BP, wikipedia, from the last 3 homes they purchased, and so on.

The other big piece of the puzzle before letting a tenant move-in is who is going to pay the monthly rent.  

I try to keep current, so I was puzzled by what you originally posted. 

Also for the month of July we just received another check which is why I was a bit puzzled.

I have seen so many different definition and puzzled on how everybody uses it in their accounting software specially when it comes to QuickBooks.Gita Faust

I'd be puzzled why the Receivership stalled and what powers remain. 

There are several parts of the puzzle when it comes to real estate and investments. 

@Travis Reed   The rate is just one piece of the puzzle.

However, one key missing piece of my puzzle is managing the property itself.A lot of my research has shown me that a lot of property management companies in my area and region provide the white glove service of screening tenants, dealing with evictions, maintenance requests, marketing, etc.