Contact your ex tenants handler (case worker) and have them get a written signed authorisation letter from the tenant instructing you to send the money to the case worker.

I'll be keeping an eye on it either way since again I happen to know the area very well and it should be an instructive test case.

California Residential Purchase Agreement and Join Escrow Instructions 6.

When applicants call regarding the add tell them the location and time for the open house.When perspective tenants are leaving the open house hand them a application form and instruct them to return it completed to the rental property by a given date.Collect the applications, pre-screen and throw away the applicants that do not meet your basic standards.

I can see a day when giving professional instruction will be a licensed matter in real estate, as it should be! 

Southern California based entrepreneur seeking to get into real estate investing.

Now it's totally gentrified and shocked how fast investors and entrepreneurs moved in, crazy.Now I'm trying to convince my neighbor to be my mentor lol.

Make sure you give yourself a good inspection period with clear instructions that if the inspection fails you get out of the contract and get your earnest money back.

They are going to input whatever information they're instructed to, and that should be the extent of their contribution to the transaction. 

You need to instruct your broker to write your commission checks to your LLC, not to you.