If I can’t confirm 100% by sleuthing that way and talking to people, then I have the seller provide whatever proof they can that they really own the property, and also have my title company run an O&E, part of which is snail-mailing a letter to the owner in public record’s primary address so the owner gets notice that their property is for sale and hopefully call the title company and ask what’s going on if they’re not actually trying to sell. 

We decided that instead of our usual e-lease, I will print out a paper copy of the lease and meet at the property for signature.

@Jayson Greenblatt  Rent do vary, we are mostly in A & B areas, maybe a few C+, we aren't looking in D or E areas.

Thus since in both cases you as a short-term landlord are merely providing basic services to your short-term guests (and receiving passive income in return), I would think this meets the requirements for Schedule E and I would think that you can report the income on Schedule E even if you don't own the property, thus avoiding the 15.3% self-employment tax?

I would retract the document (hopefully you are using an e-sign technology to make it simpler) and create a month to month lease option with $x increase.

Have tanent who paid rent for continuous 3 months ( June - sept) in 2023 but didn't pay rent for rest of the year and didn't leave the house and end up with eviction process, so for rest of 3 months of the year we didn't receive the rent.So in Schedule E form.

e) something else?

E.  

As a rough approximation, you can expect E TN gross annual rental revenue to be around 15-20% of purchase price at most price points & home sizes.

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