It scared away so many people at its initial viewings...saved for us!

As a buyer, I view it as a bargaining chip! 

There was one podcast that I recently listened to that went into the tenant interview process and provided some huge insight into properly screening tenants to minimize problematic tenant base, I'm hoping this will help in my journey.  

As mentioned earlier in the thread definitely listen to the podcasts, great stuff there with a ton of different guests, views on REI, and investment strategies.Also the two books featured here on BiggerPockets by @J Scott are must reads if you're interested in rehabbing and or flipping houses. www.biggerpockets.com/flippingbookOne other thing you can learn a ton from are the free webinars that are usually every Thursday. www.biggerpockets.com/webinarBest of luck to you!

I am pretty certain you as a RE broker would consider that selling RE without a license if you don't consider that RE sales without a license maybe you could explain why it is not.Either way  this topic gets batted around BP about every month.. we all have our points of view and that's what makes it interesting.

Check out "FilePlace" under the resources tab at the top of your screen.

Should I even bother to waste my time viewing the property?

That's one of the cheapest screening prices I've found. 

As a landlord I simply want thorough and up to date screening information (credit/criminal/eviction).  

But, as you implied, a lot of lenders won't 'get it' so I'd prefer to assign it back to the seller so that from the lenders point of view, he/she just thinks it's a standard lease option and won't even know an assignment took place.So, I'm going to ask you to humor me by pretending you did assign it back to the seller AND that the buyer's option fee was released directly to the SELLER.