I do address general cleanliness.

Does being a real estate agent give you exponential advantages while investing in real estate in general?

You'll generally need to do detention to offset for any impervious cover you add to the property.

One, the investment may have been one that worked well but a mostly unforeseen occurance happened, to either the economy in general or to the subject investment in particular.  

You’re generally working with tenants who, by definition, have lower income and often less favorable credit.

Or it's generally not ideal?

You'll probably need to look at a few to get a general idea of what a room would rent for in your area.

I have been looking more into wholesaling and I am slowing putting money into REIT’s and learning everything I can about every aspect of real estate and general investing to not just jump into this blind.

One thing you generally cannot do is charge their rent based on the fact that you MIGHT have rented it out sooner if not for these circumstances.

I've generally gone out for those sorts of trips unless you really trust the team to have a sharp eye as a lot of the styling happens once everything arrives and you have to make it fit together.