If anyone who professes to teach you something about real estate cannot or will not identify 10-20 specific, verifiable addresses they currently own and rent out, or have flipped, or optioned away or syndicated or whatever, they do not deserve any of your money. 

You have a gentlemen who served our country in the armed forces he does not deserve to be treated as you guys are doing .. 

So even though I lost a deal and commission I won loyalty and a client for life and became very valued as an agent and very successful by getting the money that was deserved and obviously, rightfully, morally and legally due to her.  

On development deals we have to but I only use my bank that I have a 30 year relationship with and I put in our loan docs up front an unwind clause if it comes to that so the only way they would call a loan is if I walked away and deserved to have it called..

In all reality, if you apply your screening criteria equally, and treat people with the respect and dignity they deserve (no matter where your rent money comes from), it's not an issue. 

@Carlos Ptriawan is a gem on these boards and deserves more respect, even if you don't like his answers or agree with him. 

Must be nice that those “crimes” deserve so much attention.It is my belief that most RE investors are best served initially investing near their home.

This is mostly because they can't provide the high level of service that Buyers deserve and for now Sellers are still generally paying. 

These squatters don’t deserve my sympathy at all—one non-paying tenant even drives a BMW SUV and has never paid a dime!

They don't deserve my money if they can't perform those tasks.