I'm never going to use your website because I already have personal relationships with people doing that work.

Would you personally intentionally go out and do this?  

While some strategies may work here, those strategies might not suit you.I don't personally do MTR, STR, co-living, or other nuanced strategies.

We make people take photos of themselves holding their ID and then I also meet them in person for the showing - at least for my units on the NW side of Chicago.I've never heard of these testers, but I am not surprised. 

I'm going to exclude my personal residence from this because I don't view this as an investment, I need a place to live.Excluding my primary residence my current breakdown is 47% real estate 53% stocks/cash. 

Yes I have known it to work because the owner is not a push over, enforces policy and can make it run good......however, do you have the right personality to do this, AND if you move out can you continue to have the house run smoothly with no one in charge.  

Personal finance is as much behavioral as it is math.

If not from the person in office, then definitely from the person running against them.

The flippers we personally work with in California have not run into this issue (as far as I'm aware).

I personally started in my local real estate market in Columbus Ohio.