Luckily, my brother is a software engineer so he put together a website where new tenants can simply click on "apply."

It's great to hear about your plans to enter the Central Maine real estate market.

Even if the applicants seem to check out otherwise, I would still be cautious about entering into lease agreements with them.

I'm going through a divorce so entering this journey with my own money isn't any option currently.  

They’re simply projecting their own incompetence onto you.

Enter a maintenance request, assign a vendor, attach a fake invoice.

.• An unauthorized person or persons have unlawfully entered and remain or continue to reside on the property owner's property.• The real property was not open to members of the public at the time the unauthorized person or persons entered. • The property owner has directed the unauthorized person to leave the property. • The unauthorized person or persons are not current or former tenants pursuant to a written or oral rental agreement authorized by the property owner. • The unauthorized person or persons are not immediate family members of the property owner. • There is no pending litigation related to the real property between the property owner and any known unauthorized person. 

Enter the STR:Short term rentals are defined by the IRS as properties with an average stay is less than 7 days.

I didn't consider trying to time when to enter the MFH market based on the current valuation of MFH CRE. 

I was not trying to be negative, but simply pointing out the world typically response to what you make of it.