Like any other legal document that may already require a notarized signature, you can have the rental agreement notarized - the notary checks your identification, records it, and gets your thumbprint.Most UPS Stores and some banks/credit unions have notaries available during business hours - don’t bring your notary “friend,” as the tenant may not trust them either.

You have to take in to account that they will be working the hardest when the weather is the most extreme whether it be hot or cold.

If you do this you will 1. know what they like & want in from a deal 2. gain their trust 3. learn what you do not yet know about larger deals.  

But because they have already proven they can't be trusted an attorney would be a must for me, you're not in the business of giving free rent.

A friend of mine who is still a wholesaler and a very good one, has done deals with sellers that sold to him for less than someone else because they liked and felt they could trust him.

What I mean is...is he a handy man that is extremely good/reliable and that you never want to lose?

I've been looking at eCampaignPro as a marketing resource.It's a national email list of roughly 800,000 real estate professionals.They say they have been trusted by real estate professionals for 15 years, and apparently they build their list from opt-ins that that you can click on when signing up with major MLS systems, etc.Do any of you get their emails?

There are some caveats we would need to work through; I have two brothers that technically each have a third ownership per the trust (this would work out to 25% ownership for them each based on the current math since I already 'own' [on a private loan agreement with my parents] 25%).

With proper planning these can be extremely helpful, even more so if you're in a hot market (easy to sell) and buy off market (less competition).

, a property that is extremely likely to go up over the long term, and none of your own money in it.