If you are actually buying the property, a 5 or 10% deposit is fairly common practice. 

But practically, sounds like you are beating a dead horse. 

I'm going to practice analyzing deals based on the 70% rule for flippers.TLDR, my goals.1.

We send a ton of direct mail every month and buy practically everything from DM marketing. 

Disclaimer: While I’m an attorney licensed to practice in PA, I’m not your attorney.

The legislature deliberately added laws to discourage their use and made violations of the law "tie ins" to the Deceptive Trade Practices Act which allows plaintifs treble damages and mandatory attorneys fees. 

GCAARStandard of Practice 15-2The obligation to refrain from making false or misleading statements about other real estate professionals, their businesses, and their business practices includes the duty to not knowingly or recklessly publish, repeat, retransmit, or republish false or misleading statements made by others.

California Association of Realtors Wire Fraud Advisory has some best practices in it that, to the best of my knowledge, should not be state-specific. 

Storing information on External hard drives or USB sticks can also be unsafe..I agree with a lot of what you said Nancy but storing your information on your desktop rather than the "Cloud" is not necessary "safer", it might be a false sense of security..It is important when using Quickbooks online, iCloud or any Cloud type service that the user is following best practices.

I can practically bring in tenants after some quick and basic fixing such as the roof, painting, carpeting and new windows.