A mortgage broker working with investors should also have a good network of private lenders s/he can match-up with investor borrowers.While you have what sounds like a good rapport with your existing broker, have a blunt discussion with her to verify she has the experience and reach to embark on this venture with you.

If they are on Supra electronic lockboxes, then you will pay a deposit, plus insurance, and then of course the rental for the key.  

I like to buy them under contract, give the seller a $200 deposit then flip the home to a professional buyer and turn my $200 into $2000 -$5000 immediate cash profit!  

On her lease that I now have a copy of it shows $0 as a deposit while the other unit shows a normal 1st months rent deposit.

As a landlord, you collect deposits to offset some repairs and bifurcate a portion of the rent as reserve over time for larger capital repairs.  

She actually requested the 2 year term and paid double deposit.

We both have an understanding that i am willing to give him a deposit to lock in a property and with that I have the first option to purchase.

All out of state PMs do a Direct Deposit.  

No major damages, but all kinds of stuff, random people living there, that werent authorized, carpet, stains, and cleaning needed at the least.By the time the tenant moves out, they will owe me about 1300 in rent/late fees.I have a 1k security deposit, that I will be keeping.Considering it is always hard to recover money from tenants, especially degenerate ones, would it make sense, to offer to the tenant, if the place is cleaned, the keys and garage door opener is left, and all stuff is removed, and you are out by the 21st per the judges order(not by a sheriff the next day) that I will drop the damages hearing?

If you agree to make the deposit not contingent upon obtaining financing that might help ..