Or is your concern about cash flow related to your lender?

My concern with the DST is driven by the overall state of the market at the moment - low cap rates where your risk is magnified by the interest only debt and fees the typical DST layers on the investment. 

And make sure you live in that 1st house so you're close to and can address problems as soon as they appear. 

A quitclaim deed is a straightforward way to transfer ownership, but it doesn’t address tax issues.

I believe that you don't get returns (failed to deliver) with bulk mailers so you don't know which addresses are bad.That's the simple stuff.My advice is to do various mailings that you or some prepares locally, that go out immediately, using 1st class postage.

You can print this one on your computer, no need for the “official” printed forms.W-9 asks them to enter their name, address, and tax ID – which can be a SSN, ITIN (for people who are not permanent residents) or EIN (business tax ID).

However, a lot of concerns can be mitigated with looking at their past rental behavior in a lot of different settings.

These 2 platforms don't focus on MTR but vacation rentals so using Furnished Finder is a better way to get those longer term folks.I have always been a bit concerned about the area's penchant for restrictions.

On paper some of these buildings had amazing metrics, excellent cash on cash returns, cap rates, etc, but when I looked at the buildings I found the neighborhoods were rough, there was poor management in place, there was lots of deferred maintenance to address.

As far as rate is concerned, you can usually go about two points over the current rate (less closing costs for a seller financed deal so there is no real expense there) You need to make sure the borrower can cover that.