I'm a father of 3 and a self employed financial advisor for 8+ years.  

What size MF are talking about.  

Denis Couture Have you considered employing a strategy, of locating properties owned by Motivated Sellers willing to consider Seller Financing?

So on the SS# thing, every time I've had someone say "I'm in the country lawfully, and my employment is above board and not under the table, but I do not have a SS# because of X," it (so far) has turned out they were not in the country lawfully and/or their income source was some unverifiable under the table thing that we cannot use for mortgage purposes. 

There is normally some sort of 'discount' offered to the buyer of a package deal, but the size of that discount will tend to depend on how badly the seller just wanted them off their hands as well as how interested the buyer was in buying both to begin with.

All they want is 2-3 months of housing, because they plan on moving again when they find employment.

Good sized yard and well kept houses in the neighborhood.  

First, I believe that investing in yourself is always a wise investment, especially if you're lost about what strategy to employ in your target market.     

I wanted to write a blog post on it but thought I would employ all of you for some feedback.

Account Closed  I do a little of this and I would only deal with someone I can eye ball.and size up.. too many weirdo's and wanna bees on the internet or on bP or linkedin or facebook.I also owned a sizeable HML company and of course we advertised and many times did not meet our borrowers but if they were local we always had them come in.but I had a Accurant program to run them through that would detect fraud and I did that first contact.I have gotten a few loans from lendinghome and they do a back ground check which I think is great.But in general private lending is by non professional lenders known to you.. not people you meet on the internet that's a good way to lose your private money LOL