Your job sounds like some math is required...that plus some common sense is mostly what you're getting into for rentals.In my opinion you could kill two birds with one stone and get a duplex and live in one half and rent the other.  

My philosophy so far has been cash-is-king, so my chase has been in securing cash flow.

If you can't, you're a bird dogger. 

Better to "leave" $500 on the table than have 4 months of carrying costs trying to chase a few dollars. 

I am looking for some one with integrity and experience who needs a bird dog.

A good way to kill two birds with one stone is sell two of your houses that have the most equity.  

Emotionally, it is hard to let it go, but I agree that I should channel my energy and time into something more productive than chasing these crooks.  

I would love to bird dog but honestly I don't have much information on it.

That's why I still deal with Chase, they have branches every where you turn. 

However, I'm not sure how exactly: bird dogging or lead generation?