Lease options can be structured in a variety of ways, the simplest and cleanest way is to charge an option fee and then rent, with a portion of the rent usually a fixed amount (ie $50 dollars a month or something) being credited toward an eventual down payment when they exercise the option to buy.  

If you are the type of person who stops at the cemetery on the way home to get flowers, I am most likely not the agent for you.My regular investors don't pay retail prices, but I don't give 75% discount coupons up front begging for buyers to represent in this market either.

I've talked with one manager where after being informed they'd been scammed, the guest broke the lockbox and slept in the house until the cops got there.There was a time that Craiglist was a wonderful tool with a vast variety of uses.

But it kind of makes me wonder about the backstory and that you'd be getting into a risk area of similar variety as these folks.They didn't seem too upset about it, as they had basically just built a much larger/nicer home adjacent to theirs but it still makes me wonder if you'd be exposed in a similar way.

There's pros & cons to each method, certainly.Typically, we also recommend starting with a 3-hour drive radius around your hometown as the market you should start with for a variety of reasons. 

My wife and I are here in Nashville bringing her 10+ years in the local market now being the principle broker/agent for our own real estate company as well as myself coming from 15+ years of construction management.Looking to make local connections for strategies and exposure to a variety of real estate ventures from flips of any scope and size to long term holds of SFHs to multi-family/commercial properties.Thanks and we look forward to using BP and our local community to the fullest! 

When they moved in they had been getting along with my elder tenant, they had been baking her cookies and bringing her flowers.  

You can look under the network tab then click on companies and find a variety of insurance companies that work with investors.

@Robbie McKnight I can't answer your question completely because there's a lot of variety from office to office.1.

I'm suspecting you're right in that there is such a wide variety (putting it off till end of month, planning ahead at beginning of month, etc.)