Let's say that a "rent lock" is legitimate (sounds fishy, since that is what a lease does anyway for the lease duration at least).

Thus sourcing the same property they are after is difficult as they are buying in all venues.

Appreciate this great venue to connect and learn.

These options offer first dibs to owner occupant purchasers, so, again, if you could at least break even renting your current house (I'd consider the 50% rule and modify as appropriate - lots of info on that in the forums) you might be able to snag a great deal through one of these venues.

Likely talking about end of August and likely somewhere close to Williamsburg  (convenient to trains)   I'm scouting venues currently and should have a more concrete idea of time and place by end of week.  

YOU are "collections".If you have a judgement for money owed, then yes, irrelevant of the circumstances you can HIRE a collection company who will keep most of the money and very likely not collect any at all.Actually, if a tenant leaves and legitimately owes you money, you actually can turn the debt over to collections. 

Tax returns, bank statements and 1099's from legitimate online payment providers is a great way to verify the income of someone who owns an online based business.

To my knowledge, legitimate Unicorns are not for sale for any amount of money.Turnkey properties rarely have the best rate of return but they are typically easier to maintain.  

Even if this is all legitimate, I don't think we are starting off well and I don't want to have a poor relationship with my landlord.

And for the devil's advocates: obviously it would be okay for the new investor to submit a lowball offer through the realtor if the investor had the intent and means to be a legitimate buyer (i.e. not throw out lowball offers to see what sticks) and the property warranted a lowball offer.