I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but we use www.erentpayments.com for our tenants to pay.The advantage is we know the money has cleared prior to it being deposited into our account. 

She spends many hours replying to emails, getting cleaners in, contracts completed, deposits returned, marketing, getting issues resolved, and much more that would absolutely prevent me from finding more properties.

Because they can say all day yea I'm not bias but you will see once you start asking for a longer due diligence period or you re not depositing earnest money until after the due diligence period..whatever skill you re good at focus on that skill in reference to your business.

We have had a look at the numbers on this property and the area and would like to put in two offers on this residence:1) for 90% of the asking price (£405,000 total) on a 10 year master lease-option at £2,000 per month (£240,000 total over those 10 years) which will count as a non-refundable 40% deposit.

Just make sure they stay in order.Any of the epson work force printers will work....you just need one with a slot feeder rather than a tray.

When all docs are signed and loans funded and/or cash deposited, they close the transaction.

This is one of the reasons that I send my financials to a dozen banks and keep relationships (lines of credit, deposit accounts, etc.) with all of them so that I have them all competing for my business, and they know that I will not hesitate to move my business elsewhere if I am unhappy.

One more question about double escrows: Is it normal to require a non-refundable earnest money deposit of 1k-2.5k?

I used an attorney to draft up my purchase and sales agreement and then again to hold my deposit in escrow.

Box or direct deposit or set it up where they don't know your physical address to begin with.