I also hit up individual investors in that market and start building relationships with them - they can help with all aspects - choosing people, neighborhoods, etc. and may eventually feed you deals. 

.,3) Provide tenant with video feed of camera at his front door and send alerts if strangers show up or if there is any security issue like attempted breakin.

@Andrew Postell Hey I appreciate that feed back.

I get why some sellers are desperate enough to cash in their chips for a discount, but not so much why they would accept lower monthly drip feed than they could arrange for themselves?

I highly recommend that you use Redfin in tandem with Zillow to gauge property values as Redfin is a broker with MLS access and they update their property feeds every 15 minutes or so.

Do you have a letter stating that they are being feed for late payment?

Maybe you should get on a daily feed from the MLS and see which deals meet your criteria with the type of financing you're talking about! 

As for Zillow and the other platforms, they all feed from our MLS, so it goes out to all of them.

So if you're friend put the proceeds there, for the most part they can't get their money back out until the sponsor sells the investment property at some point down the road (time frames vary by DST, but for sake of this feed..lets say 7-8 years on average). 

You can also grab probate info yourself from the county, but you'll have to physically go to the courthouse and go through each file to pull address & executor/admin info.There are a lot of new data feed sources popping up lately, but I don't have any experience with them.