Question about hiring boots on the ground

[Fili Aguirre]

How do you qualify boots on the ground in order to hire them to either show a property, take pictures etc etc etc? Do you ask for a Picture of their driver's license? What else?

[Scott Lundgren]

@Fili Aguirre

The question you are asking can be interpreted differently depending on what your end goal is.   If you are an out of state investor that is rehabbing and you need someone to double check the rehab and show the property for potential sale or rent I would suggest using a property management company.   But if you are wholesaling and just trying to confirm the condition or get a contractor in to bid then you would want to find a local realtor that would do that for a small fee.  There are plenty of struggling realtors out there that would do that cheap, I know because I was that struggling realtor at one point and did this for out of state investors to help me get started in Real Estate.   

I would only work with a licensed individual, too much risk hiring random people that haven't taken the time or care to get licensed. When someone is licensed they are insured also, if something does come up that you need to recover you can always work with insurance companies, but individuals can very quickly disappear if something goes wrong and your recourse is almost zero in that scenario.