I think you're doomed to excessive heating bills no matter where you put it.

Think of it: interest rates are on historical lows and many investors are afraid of stocks, so they have to allocate their excess cash.

One member is going to be good enough to demonstrate actual authority to contract, so the lease should still be good. 

Until you own the property, you have no authority.

Most every morning I spend hours online, three to five different web sites, in search of property and/or ways to make a decent cashflow in the real estate business.

I, of course, read Rich Dad, Poor Dad as well as a few other real estate and personal finance related books and soon after I found Bigger Pockets while browsing the web for RE information!

Cold calling/call centers/ paid leads was something we did a lot of and it worked well enough as one lead source among many, but we found in order to scale efficiently past a certain level it was important to focus more on generating inbound leads as much as possible which we did through consistently asking for referrals, brand building, web presence/ SEO/ content, email marketing, advertising both online and off, media coverage, social media, events/shows/speaking engagements, traditional/ offline networking, direct mail, etc.

You need a Borrower Authorization from one of the people on the loan.

If your fee is excessive, then the owner turns you down or the flipper won't buy, so your fee needs to be reasonable.

Nooutstanding debt in excess of $1000 that is not in a payment plan.4.