It's beginning to feel not worth the hassle to continually track down payments for months at a time with no repercussions. 

Found a doozy on a routine inspection recently - I lost track at 24 cats 😕 - this tenant has been spiraling for a bit, but needless to say will be gone quickly.

Gave fake names of someone from SF and ended up tracking down the real people and they’ve heard their name being used before.

One your cash $40k and the other your financed $85k.Another option would be to track down the bank that is currently financing it and see if they will finance you to take over the asset.  

If you want to scale your business excel is just not a feasible long term option especially when it comes to follow up appointments, diligent note taking, recording phone calls, tracking deal stages etc.  

What's the best structure for such a partnership: liability, taxes, avoiding commingling with other deals, expense tracking, etc.

I will have my number on the sign so it wouldn't be hard for them to track down who's causing the mischief. 

I also spend a lot of time tracking down people who are hard to find around here, so I might be able to come up with something.

If that business is rehabs & or tracking down sellers it could be used to fund another deal or develop a much more robust marketing plan.

Now, I'm exhausted posting to wholesalers, nothing personal, but most have attitude, personality and/or sociopathic trait disorders, unwilling to learn, self centered, self absorbed, lazy, looking for a fast buck having the audacity of calling themselves real estate investors or even business people when they follow the guru track of using a sale contract, either that or, probably like yourself Andrea, you or they just got caught up in something you or they aren't really aware of.