I think that is critical.. especially if your audited if they have been doing your work for many years they will be easly able to defeat an audit. 

I am glad to read someone who has read or heard the stuff out there with a critical mind.A lot of the material out there about wholesaling is just recirculated material from someone else that has been around for years. 

Buying raw lists out of any source, listsource.com, lacks the key; motivation.Investors can get at raw land via delinquent real estate tax lists some times available from the county tax commissioners office.  

In order to drill down a little further and find out if they are the best potential people to source and manage property for you, I would ask the following questions:How long have you been a property manager?

2- are there other sources that are more reliable?

I see money management at the foundation of many problems with rent but I would suggest that even when funds are tight if there is an income source someone is getting paid.  

Also, there are more experienced financiers on BP than I am (for example, @Jerry Padilla), but I know you can get 10 conventional mortgages in your name and your husband can have 10 in his name (so you've got a long way to go before you have to find alternative lending sources). 

I see higher rates and less sources for rural areas.Mark

.- Avoid agents that have been doing it a while, but that aren't sourced via referral.

I'm guessing Zillow sources census data in addition to their own data or is it all completely in-house data that they use?