To protect yourself, screen well.  

The algorithm we (and/or I, personally) use implements a multiplicative attribute screening function that eliminates borrowers and/or deals that haven't thought out or flushed out the details of their project.

Tell them you want to do some marketing for them and bring them pre-screened seller leads.

I have been listening to a lot of BP podcasts and trying to screen properties using their metrics. 

Hello,I have tried to search for several topics on this site today and the results appeared ALL the way to the left of the screen on both Explorer and Firefox browsers.

Either they are not screening properly or someone is not managing the tenancy well, or both.

My owner financed deal came through a tired landlord (slumlord) whose old school ways of screening by his gut let a criminal in who never paid a dime.

Think about removing screen doors and adding doggy doors.

You can leave the line on the screen as a marker, and lay out homes on the map.

We self manage one property from out of state as we have systems in place there that make it easy, and there is a long term tenant so having to show and screen isn't a problem yet.