I've seen it all too often that people just love the place and want to move in right away, then when you hand them the two page app with all the questions & credit release, you could see it on their faces, the "oh sh*t look, it's a real app & credit check", they take it and tell you they will return it, yada, yada... and you never hear from them again.

You should also find investors locally and network with them face-to-face.

Margins like anywhere else get thinner and thinner to the point where the risk and reward barely are balanced.His title search is also something that isn't worth much.  

But now I'm faced with too much information overload. 

You should also find investors locally and network with them face-to-face.

You should also find investors locally and network with them face-to-face.

In the same time period that our above mentioned tenants lived in their home, we had four sets of tenants move in and out of that one with barely any work on our end!

Then my agent goes into selling mode showing me a bunch of his overpriced listings that I had already passed on.  24 hours later (48 after my offer), the property I offered on is still listed, rubbing my face in it. 

I have been in a house that smelled so bad you had to cover your face with a wet towel, but you could only smell it from the driveway, not the corner!

As a CPA myself who is married to a tax accountant who has barely been home the past two weeks, this is probably REALLY bad timing for your roommate.