im a millionaire ands my every day drivers are a pair of 10 year old crown vics I bought at police auction.

I strongly believe over the past decade that the country has been riding on the backbone of the commodity boom and the main driver that kept it out of the Great Recession, and hence, the real estate boom.  

Kind of like driver's ed, you learn how to drive, but the gurus hype the class as if you're going to win the Indy 500!

I am a pizza delivery driver that has been working there for 19 months (started in early January of 2021 and present) and roughly make about 20k a year and have a great credit score.

Often I find it's a situational driver why they lease SFR multi vs MFH unit, namely pet's that are not accepted in MFH.

But you carry your drivers license and to get your driver's license you have to show multiple proofs of identity, citizenship status and permanent address.

APPRECIATION => I have this capitalized because it is the main driver of gains over the long term and it is very misunderstood IMO.

We have idiot drivers here too, they didn't grow up here when I did.

In this unhinged pricing environment, since price you buy and sell a property is a bigger driver of total return than the day to day drudgery of property management, by being local one leaves lot of money on the table.Another result of 2008 crisis is many potential buyers with damaged credit.

I don't think your going to have very good luck getting strangers to give you their drivers license and social security card.To verify that you are talking with the owner simply look up the owners name on the county tax auditor site and when they introduce themselves it should be the same.Now this next part of my answert is just speculating based off of the content in this question; you should not be putting properties "under contract" the only time you should be doing that is if you are ready, willing and able to buy it.