That the "dance" for sales people is, in fact, elaborate, can be validated, by the number of workshops my company is holding in cooperation with state associations, and by the maximum attendance at each one.

We are a couple with a rental property in Denver, CO.My wife signed a lease with a tenant, who won't cooperate with me (I'm the husband) because he (the tenant) says that "I'm not the landlord on the lease". 

@Tabitha Cooper Thanks Tabitha for your comment. 

So he is very cooperative and friendly.  

Your plan only works if the current tenant is cooperative and actually leaves.

If you are planning on listing, the mls agreement is typically what is in place that allows cooperation with other brokers, which means you have more access to buyers for your listings.

I don't have a contract yet (need to have them drafted), but I'm interested in cooperative assignments, where the tenant buyer pays me a down payment of x% of the house value and I would then assign them the contact.

I am looking for best way to approach the owner so they can voluntarily leave/move and cooperate with any information regarding their tenants.

In DC, you can generally get away with it (for a limited number of transactions) because of the "Peggy Cooper Cafritz" law, but in Virginia, when you get caught (3 times) it's a class 6 felony and a $3,000 fine.It's important to know whether or not you are actually a Bird Dog, or Wholesaler, not by heat you call yourself, but by what you are actually doing.  

I think he spent all the money for rent on his attorney - who has been trying to get him to co-operate with no luck.