This will give you a sense of their integrity and some specifics about their processes.Adding, to answer your specific question, the most common scam you read about are lenders who charge up-front fees and then disappear.

Being able to jump in your car and get to the property to do what you can or get to city hall to put out fires is going to be integral.

@Nathan ClaireThank you so much for this Sir and yes integrity comes first!!

I’m sure you are acting with the utmost integrity but stuff happens...

I have found National Integrity Title Company is great with Sheriff Sale and REO properties.

Granted, I agree these types of items may not be critical to the safety and structural integrity of the property, but still.

We can build the technology integration with the mail house as needed. 

I'd also take a second look at your PM's integrity as well.

The other part no books (that I know of) talk about is whether to vertically integrate in a local market (i.e. build out your own management infrastructure and maintenance team) by acquiring many smaller deals, or trading up into larger buildings (100 units plus).

(I ask this one as I see a lot of recommendations of utilizing an attorney to acquire foreclosed homes, but absolutely no idea what type of attorney, how to integrate them with a broker, etc.).5)  Any other information that is important that I may have skipped over here.I completely get the general concepts, but so far, all the books I have read and websites/videos I have researched are just a bunch of hype.