Alas, the one cash offer is lowball, as it often is.No normal human can pick between 20 nearly identical choices & if the highest offer doesn't close then it doesn't matter that it was the highest offer.So you, a listing agent, flip to the preapproval letters on all 19 financed offers.You call the phone numbers appearing on all 19 preapproval letters and take note of who either picked up the phone, or called you back before sundown.Boom, just narrowed it down from 19 to 2.You drive over to your clients' place at 8 pm on Sunday,You present the 2 financed offers and the 1 lowball cash offer, and ask them to pick one of the three. 

I heard on more then one occupations all PM's were crooked thieves and was skeptical.

I would think if you didn't have a way to actually verify the tenants identity and addresses then you would still need to call previous landlords.

The couple upstairs that is man and woman can be late but not the same sex couple in building 2.That is why businesses have policies, so every tenant is treated identical because if not you open up yourself to all sorts of issues.

I've made up names to protect identities.

You can't compare two identical houses, using a market in California and compare it to a market in the Midwest, and treat them both the same. 3 - Probably the most important reason this whole thing blows up is this.  

My brother in law has had this happen before...he put in new copper piping and the thieves cut them out and took 'em...hvac unit, took that too....The best deterrent is for you to camp there.  

One of the identity theft scams is grabbing people's info to open cell phone accounts to conduct illegal business with.  

Board up your windows and doors because metal thieves will be EVERYWHERE, especially now that you opened up the walls for them.

I know that's a small thing but I put 25% down on 4 identical units that's a mistake I would have made with 4 times the downside.