-Any other behavior you can pick up on to indicate interestThen they put in the offer:-Are they the best PRICE or the best DEAL?

Stat 704.44. giving them reason to pick up and leave.

I have narrowed down five different US cities where I would like to begin my investing journey and plan on picking one in the near future. 

A good investor agent using a good team, will tell you off the top of their head in 3 seconds every neighborhood by class, risk profile, and be able to evaluate asset condition as well.Your job is to pick a strategy...

When you buy through a wholesaler you should have gotten title insurance which should have picked up on subdivision issue.

I work with a local GC that picks up projects (fully or just specific tasks).

It's a gorgeous loft with beautiful furniture, lighting, great location, and below market rate but I still can't find a tenant.

I went through applications for about a week and I'm glad I did rather than picking the best from the first 2 days listed.

Green is good yellow needs to be looked at and Red is there is something wrong.. you simply walk in and pick up a copy of it on the counter..

Basically you need to be able to pay a large part of a long-term (multi-year) lease up-front, then still have some cash for renovation and interior/furniture, to finally recoup the investment through STR and a hopefully very quick way.