If you end up with a bunch of properties with no equity, you may want to narrow it down to absentee owners who own their property free and clear, or have owned at least 10 years, or something like that.

I'm able to narrow it down to just the sub-division and as shortly back as I want and matching features of the property/building.

Mike, I think the first thing you want to do is narrow down your field of vision.

Provided you do adequate pre screening you should be able to narrow down your likely eligible list of applicants to only a few and show the place individually. 

This is my biggest hurdle in trying to narrow down the markets to invest in outside of SF, where I live.

In addition, your pool of lenders will be smaller as many banks won't want to deal with lower stock office.I would narrow down your question in order to facilitate useful replies.

Do some some due diligence, search and read previous discussions, select few professionals and then speak with them, then narrow down to the one you wish to work with.

This decision will somewhat narrow down your options list.

@Mark H. so your personal situation allows you to spend lots of time on here, but you narrow your focus so you can dive deep.

How do you begin to narrow down these choices?