@Philissa Gilliard Ensure you think through your wholesaling goals and have your site strategically built to support these.

On top of that ensure you have enough reserves to handle anything that comes your way.

We are also very deliberate to use rock wool insulation within the stud bays (and never fibreglass) to ensure moisture that does enter the assembly will not be held there by the insulation. 

In transitioning from another PM to myself, I ensure that the owner (my client/customer/partner) is not double paying management for the transition month.Nicole is correct in that the gross rent amount is reported to the IRS. 

Super easy way to ensure no negative reviews appear, and that any positive review is rubber-stamped without anyone looking into the IP address, cookies, or anything else -- cut a check each month. 

You have to go through an onsite inspection process to ensure credit standard compliance to get one of those so your typical mom & pop landlord are locked out of this stuff.Another idea would be to have a family member of his who does have email / internet access assist him.

If the thesis is solely the greater fool theory ("I will make money on this because someone will surely pay more than I paid for it"), how can you ensure that you are not that greater fool at the end of the chain?

At this point, I would follow @Thomas S. advice and get your lawyer to ensure the deposit gets sent to.

I have a rental available and was contacted by a New Jersey (NJ) organization called Bridgeway Community Partners in Mental Health aka Bridgeway Rehabilitation Services.It sounds like they send out their own inspector to ensure habitability of the property and then they pay for security deposit and monthly rent until tenant gets on their feet. 

You only need to ensure that the property can meet the self-sufficiency test, plus you have three months of reserves.