You will likely have an easier time collecting on any damages from them than a random tenant.  

If you have to carry a gun to collect your rents it is not worth it.

For “regular” lease option deals, where I’m assuming investors put 20% down, does the investor intend to collect an option consideration that covers his original down payment?

Agree on not buying a coin operated washer and dryer, the ROI of collecting the coins vs. the rent you charge just does not make sense.

They will be able to pull out all of their invested capital and still collect cash flow on the property, i.e.

It's turning out to be a sweet situation as we are doing major renovation work while she is gone and still collecting rent! 

The 50% Rule says that you will only keep 50% of the rent you collect on an average rental after paying for vacancy, management, taxes, insurance, and maintenance.

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/5321...Will the courts view the collection of the last month's rent as an additional security deposit that requires the payment of interest?

Anyhow I think I have found my "guy" however he has never actually collected rents into his account then dispersed payments for owners, his situations were to have the money go directly into the owners account via online payments or they are his properties and collects rents for himself, this market is slightly different and I have a hard time getting people signed up online and with the amount of units I think it is a better idea for him to collect rent into his account then disperse. 

I think prop mgmt software really depends on how many units you have, how many features you'd like (expense tracking, chat, just rent collection, accounting, maintenance requests, etc), and whether or not you want to pay for the software.For me, I was looking for something that supported multiple users (so my husband mom and I can all manage the rentals together), had chat built into it (again because my family co-manages it's a lot easier to keep everyone on one page here), and also had payments for rent and reimbursements.