In the meantime, i recommend hedging your leveraged real estate bets (which are essentially, leveraged U.S. treasury bond bets) with non-financialized hard assets like commodities, precious metals, crypto assets, fine art, etc.  

Has anyone here participated in the Wayne County Treasurer's Auction of Tax-Foreclosed Properties?

You can also search the county auditor and treasurer's site to see if the taxes are being paid or if they are delinquent.

But since you are new to BiggerPockets, you must know that you just unlocked an Indiana Jones treasure moment where all of the Columbus agents get an alert from a batphone to immediately drop everything that they are doing and come here, to this forum, to talk about Columbus because you asked about Columbus.

the septic needs to be replaced . it is a corroded metal container and I was told Leitchfield‘s should be replaced , as long as excavater is there already

My roof is not dark (it's metal, orange-like color) but it's not really visible given the higher elevation compared to the street. 

Should be in the parkway (on the street side of the sidewalk), look for a blue metal circle in the grass somewhere.

There was a guy on a bike digging through it looking for scrap metal 30 minutes before.

I've never seen anyone that can accurately tell you if a house, stock, precious metal is going to go up or down.

Quote from @Treasure Soe: Would anyone like to share their thoughts on the effectiveness of cold calling, Facebook ads, and virtual driving for dollars in obtaining off-market deals?