You should get these things for all applicants:1. rental application with employment reference and personal reference2. credit3. past landlord reference4. check for eviction historyMost apps like RentSpree include all this in what the tenant pays to send you a report.I cosigned for my daughter and her boyfriend on their first lease.

You can delay the sales of the properties for your convenience.If you put all the properties on the market now and one property gets under contract before the others, you can sing into the contract that you can potentially delay the closing date by a certain amount of days.Best of luck!

Also consider contacting houses that look vacant, simply door knocking in a neighborhood that you are interested in and talking to the homeowners in a genuine way, For Sale By Owners is another potential, using an App like Nextdoor or Facebook pages/groups related to local real estate and just telling the group what you are looking for, contractors also know about houses coming on the market soon and so do property management companies, and finally garage sales are a good way to find off-market properties as people prepare to sell.To Your Success!

They missed the promised start date on the project by almost two months causing a cascading failure on dates since it was the roof, there were interior things, other dependencies that we couldn't do until the roof was finished. 

Therefore the concern I have is people are giving them their money and they are giving dated and unrealistic advice.

But, then when they ask me the rent, the terms, available date......

Consider offering concessions the seller might value, like a quick closing or flexible closing date.

Our systems have caught people using SSNs from deceased people or the SSN indicates they are 2-3 decades older than their driver license birth date.

It’s more expensive than PropStream, but the data quality is higher.For ARV calculations, if you don’t have access to the MLS, our Backflip App can provide it (it's good).

When an owner passes away, the property’s tax basis is reset to its fair market value on the date of death (this is known as the “step-up basis”).