Since you have family in the area, I would recommend you plan a trip here and schedule some time with local professionals to put together your local team.

With that being said, we are taking a family trip to South Padre Island and are interested in looking at properties when we are there.

Hope your trip is good. 

You probably saved me a trip!

As he's gotten older, the portion destined for Save and Spend have increased - though Spend is still the skinniest part of the cow.When we retrofit a building, he receives all the scrape metal (wiring, plumbing, doors/windows/siding), and in the past five years has done surprisingly well (the Cow has had to make a few trips to the bank to "poop" {as the boy likes to say}).  

Also if you redo it you can add more breakers and outlets so people aren't constantly looking for extension cords and tripping breakers.* If the plumbing is ancient then it's probably horse-squeeze too.

Hi BP, I am curious to know what proof do I need to travel to Utah (from Oregon) to check up on a rental property for the IRS audit of my business trips?

I did that with my first two properties that I bought out here in the Bay Area.....as did others....I'm also glad I stepped out of my comfort zone and took a couple of trips to Ohio last year and looked at some areas and found a good agent, PM and lender....been enjoying GREAT cashflow ever since.

Does anyone want to take me on a field trip here in San Diego so I can see first hand operations?

My trip to Funchal is only going to cost me 50,000 miles or what Amex says is $500.