Many of the properties in more desirable areas (and higher potential for appreciation) would allow me to pay just about the same that I am renting right now after considering every expense under the sun (PITI, vacancy, PM, capex, maintenance, etc etc).

Currently have tenants and paying monthly consistently.

(I think proper due diligence would catch all the non paying tenants) as an LP I don't know how to check if that was done. 

My market is seasonal and I was begging for enough revenue just to cover my mortgage so I wouldn't have to pay my own rent AND a mortgage. 

In the future, do a court records search at https://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/casesearch/If you had done that, you would have seen they have 8 failure to pay rent cases against them.

Cash-flow for us pays all the bills and funds our lifestyle.  

The tenant proactively requested help in paying their rent2. 

Many times the tenant would not pay their portion of the rent on time if at all.  

… $1.2MWith head shaking, I responded that he didn’t just buy a $1.2M property from an old woman who was unable to pay her taxes for $80k.

You put in the terms of the lease, the tenant name and email and MySmartMove sends out the background check request and the tenant fills in all their information and pays for the check which is now $44/applicant.