For example, search the forums here for a tiny glimpse on how many newer PMs/landlords complain about driving out to meet a prospect... only to be no showed or stood up by someone who had no intention or capacity to follow through from the beginning.Prescreening prospects to separate the window shoppers from those who meet and match your pre-determined, in-writing rental standards is critical to ensure you're not wasting anyone's time: theirs or yours. 

Don't open up a can of worms for future deals where there may only be that 10% available to them.3 - There is no one predetermined answer here. 

You just wanted to vent and seek confirmation to your pre-determined feelings of things. 

This can help you pre-determine how to handle operations, decisions, disagreements, and dissolution of the partnership.

All of this is put together in my Real Estate Investment Plan software, which tells me when to invest based on a predetermined set of numbers (with dollars signs, not $$$) that will allow me to reach a series of milestones working towards achieving my specific set of financial goals. 

I would like it to start out initially where smaller predetermined groups are formed for say 15 minutes each made up of 6 or 7 people each that meet together, and then new groups are formed so that you get to initially meet everyone on a small group basis before actually going around and networking.

So you seek info to assist your pre-determined narrative that there dumb, bad, and doing wrong. 

You could ask for 10% down as the option fee and set a pre-determined price for say 3 years from now.

This cost both time and money, we now had to list the property for rent, screen tenants, move them in (at a lower rate).We have since included a early termination clause in our leases that allows the tenant to buy out lease at a predetermined fee.

If they remain in indefinitely, you may need a buyout provision allowing your LLC to purchase their shares at a predetermined return.Additionally, aligning incentives is crucial.