Typically these events are retirement/no longer working for that employer, death, disability, or reaching retirement age (usually 62).

R.I.P. to all the horses that have been beaten to death over the turnkey issue

The idea of only getting $100 per month in return for a $300K property would scare me to death. 

The market is hot /overbought so trying to find a deal on the MLS that makes $ense is hard to do.So, we sit on our ivory towers and think why, the answer is blowing ion the wind Like I said before many times if it hits the MLS no meat left on the bone.Word of mouth networking on homes that are sitting idle /vacant are the play for me.I had one of my top money folks over pay for a house she did a no no, making a big decision after a close person death in this case her husband, after doing our or total fix everything she is upside down.She left me out of the decision I would have voted it down.The house is a “B” area if she waits it should be back in the black.With her deep pockets she does not care much.The economy is smoking hot, low rates, lack of supply, some folks buying in no what the numbers show.

I don’t see that as a death blow to my strategy. 

But the icing on the cake is these owners will keep the property for their heirs, and on death, bequeath it on a stepped up bases.

Finding new renters for 500 doors sounds like death by a thousand cuts to me.

Most people are hardly holding onto their finances as it is so when they hear you are taking a financially risk it scares them to death.

If and when the bottom falls out for the service workers who own homes...their defaults will take a toll on the luxury and mid market.One industry cannot carry an entire city.

As Michaela suggested, Ancestry gives me quick access to U.S. and my home state's Social Security a Death Index.Accurint.com is probably the best of the best when it comes to data providers but expensive, with a $250/month minimum fee.