This includes income & asset verification, tenant's credit, criminal, and eviction reports.

You're correct the replies and feedback on here are somewhat aged for the most part.

We are living in an age of scams.....it's a full time job just being vigilant to all the crap going on....

Lastly is this a good investment at the age I am at currently, or is there anything similar to this career field that is in turn a great investment. 

I am guessing this is common for the age of the house. 

If the seller's address was in another county, I performed a similar search on that county appraisal district.I followed that up by searching Google, FB, Instagram, and other websites, depending on my guestimated age of the sellers, for more information about the seller.

Right now, I'm mostly a stay at home dad, but my dream is to start looking into that more seriously once my young kids are all school age in about 3 years, something that I can do to earn my family some additional income while maintaining flexibility to take care of the kids outside of school.

You have done everything you need to do and if you have the verifications, you should be fine.

Dave is a pretty smart guy and at his age levering quality RE for the long haul a good plan.

Also in this day an age I am thinking this can be done remotely buying and holding property in other states.