Turns out, this guy was a nurse!

Even if they are listed as living in a nursing home, we still pull them up.

Make the doctor, nurse, counselor, etc, sign a document stating that they are treating the applicant and that a 75 pound pit bull is required. 

The next morning all the doctors and nurses waited around after their shifts and were as happy as us when they found a heartbeat.

Actually knocking on doors does work, knock on the door of properties with for sale signs posted, tell the seller you don't want to waste their time, yours or the agents and if they would consider financing, then go into your pitch.Look for older landlords who would like to retire, they get rid of the headaches have an income a deferr taxes, good deal for a retiring landlord.Go to foreclosures, some there may be flipping the purchase.Look for rent-to own ads and make them your offer, don't fall for the rent-to-own scam stuff, make your pitch.Look in the Recorder's Office for those who have carried notes, non bank lenders, like Jerry Jones, LLC, then check the records to see what properties they own, go look and contact them with your offer.Go make friends with a nursing home administrator.

They converted an upstairs bedroom suite into a very nice loft and rented it, with kitchen and laundry access, to traveling nurses.

But skip tracing and calling and calling possibile relatives you can find most owners.Some are dead, in jail, sick in the hospital, in nursing homes etcetc.

I knocked on all the doors in the area and one neighbor told me that the homeowner was put in a nursing home a few months back.

HOWEVER, it is a heavily elder community so there are a lot of homes probably owned by inherited family members or the owners may need to move into a nursing home.

Furnished Finder is the most common spot and largely used by travel nurses and other medical professionals but you do get all types of guests there.