I believe hard work produces results and I believe that educating myself is key to having a long lasting career in investing.

Most likely, if he can't produce a lease (which if he isn't on the lease, he can't produce one), they will escort him off the property. 

Your health is worth more than lost rent .Show your perspective new tenant photos in the meantime and do a video of the house inside and out when current one moves out so you’re covered for any future events where tenants are moving out .

You can mitigate your risk some by getting a healthy down payment so the investor has some skin in the game and won’t want to foreclose it back to you. 

Do you have any real estate agent friends that are top producers at their firm?

Be healthy.

If they are asking $2.5M for the place and it needs $1.5M in CapEX over the next five years, is the property really producing the income necessary to justify a $4M outlay?

Can we eat healthy and work out on our own without a trainer? 

You must spend your time on deal producing activities, but since you have no deals, you cant know where your time is best spent.Block some time out each day to network, to drive for dollars, marketing and 'browsing the net for properties' (whatever that means).  

I'm honored to pass on some tips... though, take them with a grain of salt as admittedly they haven't produced any results yet