Shades/blinds/curtains open and closed.

The white blind in there was black.  

It is a lot like finding you a girl to date, you know what your looking for, you know what you want, and the blind date usually doesn't work.

Jake, I agree with you when you say that you should not blindly trust data providers.

If you're planning to refinance in the near term with a private lender, that needs to be considered as well (they won't turn a blind eye to the rent amounts).

@Jeffrey KopsWe have investors in our area making blind offers based on the online information and the photos.  

Lastly, how about decluttering (yes even with a tenant in place), and taking professional photography, or virtually staging, or at the very least opening the blinds and photographing during the day.

Sounds great, lol, but for most who invest remotely that is not realistic .. this is hardly a blind investment, it is simply one where PM has stepped out of bounds even beyond what I believed .. homework is done, like I said above. .. not worried about the result, because the home is in good shape ..

I’ve personally been very happy with the overall performance of my portfolio.In my opinion, the most important thing to understand is that this is not like investing in the stock market where in a person can just blindly pick a few index funds and will probably end up fine.

They also don't realize that way more people are going to fail at this than those that are going to be successful (though the definition of success can be argued).Many are doomed from the get-go because they are blind to what it truly takes to get from where they're at to where they want to be.