I don't have much to offer you yet, since we are also brand new investors. 

In addition to the letter, send e-mail and text stating the same thing.

See the Instructions for Schedule E (Form 1040 or 1040-SR), Supplemental Income and Loss, for information about making this choice.If you qualified as a real estate professional for 2019, report income or losses from rental real estate activities in which you materially participated as nonpassive income or losses, and complete line 43 of Schedule E (Form 1040 or 1040-SR).

She pulled up to meet me in a brand new hummer!  

I'm a brand new investor with only as much experience as someone who has never purchased investment property can have.

The Collateral paragraph says: All tangible and intangible personal property, including, but not limited to: (a) inventory, (b) equipment, (c) instruments, including promissory notes (d) chattel paper, including tangible chattel paper and electronic chattel paper, (e) documents, (f) letter of credit rights, (g) accounts, including health-care insurance receivables and credit card receivables, (h) deposit accounts, (i) commercial tort claims, (j) general intangibles, including payment intangibles and software and (k) as-extracted collateral as such terms may from time to time be defined in the Uniform Commercial Code.

While the plumber was there, he asked the plumber to fix some other small problem that was not discussed with me. 3rd month, he suddenly discovered that the brand new oven does not heat to the exact temperature.

YUP  who knows.but met on the internet  100s of e mails money before closinginsurance  there is no insurance product for private loans does not exist.. etc etc.. maybe the money will come through..

Originally posted by @Dave E.

Do you ever try to get the owner's Schedule E or tax document to verify expenses as they wouldn't leave out expenses on their tax return?