This along with your investment time frame are key factors to consider.

I have a wonderful day job here in the city, but view real estate as a key component for generating long-lasting wealth and greater stability during retirement.

If you do cash for keys, how much do you typically offer and do you scale down as the time frame gets pushed out? 

We are currently searching for our next home in MSP qnd learning that the key is patience.

Is this for a turn-key property or require rehab?

I've just started researching the real estate market in Denver today actually and my goal is to have the greater Denver / Boulder area mapped out as far as neighborhoods/rents/market conditions before I turn the key in the ignition to head out west.

If you do not have $50,000 liquid cash to invest, we do have ways to secure start up funding that can be discussed at a later time.You will first start by purchasing your first turn-key rental property from us for $50,000 cash.

If you do have to get aggressive with your cash for keys offers it's still worth it as your upside is very high.The way I see it is if you can get an extra $450/mo per unit that's $5400 in your first year paid back, you can recoup your costs very very quickly.

Other crimes that come to mind are brokering real estate without a license, real estate fraud (aforementioned and also possibly failure to disclose), forgery (creating fake leases), grand theft (taking money for rehabs and not delivering materials or completing work), wire fraud, money laundering (operating a Ponzi scheme), etc. etc. 

Of course you can also just do cash for keys if there was no deposit, but still.