Gator bois are then left to resort to mafia collection methods.

Collect money, not properties.

The idea of branding is great I think and allows guests to collectively remember your properties. 

Quote from @Andres Lasaga: I am in the process of selling a property to the tenant I have been renting the house for 4 years.I want to outsource the promissory note collections and reportsIt would be only ONE property, for now, any recommendation of a company that can manage the collections and reporting?

We have a ongoing list of each along with their fees and what state they are licensed to collect debt in.

For a relatively "safe" creative financing, one needs serious reserves (lots of moolah) and the ability to sell or refinance quickly when one of those "hiccups" occur.The gurus usually collect a large fee, from people who have neither money, reserves, nor experience.

Sometimes it can be difficult to collect and some landlords will keep any unpaid utilities out of the security deposit, though CA is one of the trickier states to do this in.

Eviction costs surged and so landlords needed to increase rents to deal with vacancy and collection loss and increase their screening standards.Then the eviction moratorium.  

That's how I started, with a company called Flip More Deals (currently called the Growth Collective) they were very hands on and helped me through the entire process and connected me with a lender and gap funder, very hands on you should check them out.

After collecting tenant pass-throughs for the year, do you pay the property taxes at the end of the year or the beginning of the next year?