If you don’t know someone who uses a shredding service, you can bring a pile of receipts to Office Depot for a few dollars a pound and they’ll do it.

I rent month to month because I like the flexibility it provides in terms of asking people to leave without having to prove that they did something wrong.....the downside of that is I end up getting houses back in November/December which always means I'm going to lose 1 1/2 to 2 months rent.not going to say finding a good tenant in a week is impossible, but in my experience I get inundated with the people who have a history of evictions and other undesirable activity during the 1st week the listing is up, followed by a wave of much better qualified prospects. 

Locations that one may call "undesirable" but the AirBnB was 100% booked almost all the time.

Or at least tell him to pound sand and that you'll buy his property the proper way and now that you know what you know his real price to you will be $440K."

I dont recommend others take this kind of risk because I was nervous, but they, pound for pound have been the 100 percent best tenants I've had in any class property I have owned.   

I think a website "code" idea is going to be undesirable for many of your sellers. 

You've either got to pound the pavement HARD or have a solid marketing budget to get any traction down here.

.: I read an interesting article not long ago considering how sort of "good intentions" lead to potentially bad/undesired results. 

It is technically possible to have some partners cash out and the remaining partners reinvest in a 1031, but it's highly complicated and usually has undesirable tax consequences for the involved parties.

Are you okay with appliances being on the person's porch and cars on blocks in the yard or do you have rules that no aggressive dog breeds more than 30 pounds are allowed.