@Wade Kulesa I think Dave’s main kick is helping people out of bondage and keeping the vulnerable out of financial prison.

Apps can't smell smoke on an applicant who also brings a bunch of rude friends with a pit bull in the back seat of the filthy car they drove up in, who was also late to the appointment and you got to admit he's been sleeping on his aunt's couch for the last year after getting out of prison - because you got him comfortable after chatting him up. 

They rent rooms out to people who have just come out of recovery.http://www.phoenixhouse.org/locations/vermont/phoe...Halfway houses (sometimes the same as sober living environments, or just for those freshly out of prison):http://granitehousesl.com/links/vermont-mens-halfw...http://recoveryhousevt.org/http://riverbankhouse.net/vermont-mens-sober-livin...Anyway, I just did some Googling.  

The only issue with the background check was the husband tenant had an assault charge 21 years ago, time in county jail, but no prison time.This afternoon, my property manager called me and told me that the tenants called her today and told her that "they didn't realize their current lease wasn't up until the end of July".

It is possible and legal to honestly say that the owner is absent and you are renting the property until he or she returns.Though Adverse Possession law is not clear to the average person, nor to the average investor, the very website that you linked in a comment above, does provide an answer to your own challenges (except for your unnecessary claim that renting an abandoned property means pretending to own it).Sue you have linked to - http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/adve...Under the “Elements” paragraph of that link it is clear our laws recognize that “nonpermissive use by the adverse claimant that is actual, open and notorious, exclusive, hostile, and continuous for the statutory period” can “ripen into legal title”.  

I will say, however, PMs are notoriously very difficult to deal with.

She works for the prison so her background should check out 

I was lucky in that in every case, they backed off once the police contacted them.But, for instance, there was an applicant freshly out of prison who was living on his sister's couch and she wanted him gone.  

Husband went to prison.  

Depending on the city the property is located in, that can be a HUGE problem.People in Texas still go to prison for Marijuana.