Virtual office with a coffee shop feel may be one niche that needs some elaboration.

My market is pretty much dead and was thinking about virtual wholesaling in another area.

I think that virtual investing or long-distance investing has become the new trendy thing to do, but Brian H. is right.For your first deal, I would advise against it.

Best case: They come, look (or not), find it ok, give you a virtual slap in the face while you play the dummy innocent novice, and they approve it.Worst case: They put you on chains, have you bust up the concrete yourself, and practically have you rip it all out and redo with permit and licensed plumber, plus fines.Or anything in between.

At the small end, there are virtually no barriers to entry and it is a potentially very lucrative business to enter.  

Virtually all Bank contract will have the same.

Yes I agree there is risk, but when the risk is virtually non existent, it's not worth even speaking about...yes, McDonalds and any restaurant can be at risk for serving HOT coffee and customer spilling such coffee on themselves...lawsuits could abound...but there are way's to virtually eliminate risk, even if a liberal judge on a mission, deciding in favor of a frivolous lawsuit, putting the hammer down on all those greedy and deceitful investors.

Service calls are virtually eliminated for the next ten years.

Is there anywhere that discusses the HOW TO aspect of working with an owner in this situation, or can you offer some help on specifically how to discuss the 'please sign your home over to me for virtually nothing' aspect?

Here in Calif, you would file a mechanic's lien with the county, however without a written/signed contract there's virtually nothing to substantiate the claim.