I recognize that I won’t be able to fully do so from afar, and eventually have to come down and spend some time at local meetups and pound the pavement a little bit to get a better feel for the market.

I can just see an inexperienced driver leaving it in 4wd and driving down a smooth asphalt highway. 

Road surfaces themselveswill be either crushed rock or crushed asphalt on Geogrid mesh; orconcrete.Driveways- Generally 25 feet wide with approximately20 foot shoulders; about ¾ mile in length in total.

The benefit of working with one of our agents is that we have an acquisitions team that is ultra dialed in on the market, pounding the pavement 7 days a week turning over every stone and looking behind every tree to find deals (on or off market) that stick out to investors.

Plus, Somehow the assumption is that an RE investor will pound the pavement, put in hours of research and then purchase RE vs the same investor will comfortable put their money in an index fund as opposed to doing the same level of legwork to pick the right stocks.

Have access to Evergreen and Oak trees, have tree spade and do key areas for look.Actually, just ran into a Cherry property, that is "bad" for most investors.  8 acres covered in Asphalt parking. 

For me, I think people need to be looking beyond the normal stick, brick, and asphalt shingles.

(My offer was made prior to the major Corona Outbreak in the US)It's a triplex in Dunellen, NJ (B- Neighborhood) I would be house hacking and there's is a massive fully paved lot in rear of the home that has a heated garage with a gated entrance (Between 1-2 car garage) which tenants don't have access to and is not rented since the owner kept it for his son who is a mechanic.The house needs a good amount of repairs such as stucco siding repairs, lot re pavement, new furnaces, and cosmetic updates.

I've only ever heard that banks want to see asphalt roads for agency & CMBS debt. 

I've been hitting the pavement hard looking at properties.