I’m new to real estate but have a background in project management. 

Do you have any other recommendations on how to find active real estate investors? 

By taking calculated risks and implementing the right strategy, one can achieve success in real estate.Good luck!

What’s been your most successful real estate deal, and what did you learn from it?

Real Estate is an investment.

They may be receiving rent payments casually in cash or depositing them into their personal account where everything is mixed together and hard to find the dates and amounts of payments to provide you.

Is the property listed with a Real Estate Professional?

If some applicants fall below your requirements, then everyone would be considered "conditional," you can raise the security deposit to mitigate your risk of someone breaking up or defaulting. 

If someone truly believe that the 17% is real and they could borrow money at a smaller interest rate, using the fungible nature of money, the person would take a loan to get into that deal, but a feel most people would not risk there primary residence on a deal like that. 

So if you could gc them yourself, you could force some equity on the new construction deals and the new construction ones might be a no brainer.The other question I'd have is whether you're getting deals on the pre-existing homes.Ultimately, its going to be real tough to scale either one if you're paying retail because if you're buying 250k homes and putting down 20 to 25%, you'll run out of cash real quick.