Just don't forget that this is a cashflow business more than an investment.

Now more than ever, I am seeing offers required to be submitted through a portal where the listing agents want no business being involved with up front negotiations.

If the property is solely tenant occupied you will be looking for a Dwelling/Fire Policy (may be called a Landlord policy or similar name) or a commercial policy such as a Business Qwners or Package policy.Most homeowners or dwelling/fire policies include:1.

They'll be your best friend & business partner in making sure the property performs and gets the attention it needs to keep tenants in place for years to come. 

Essentially the government grabs title and sees you in court to determine just compensation after the fact, for the value of the land at the time of the take.

Most (not all) HELOCs require that the property is titled to an individual (not LLC) and are full doc, meaning your employment history, income, DTI etc will be factors.

Sometimes occupants still live there and eviction is not easy, and I have even heard a story once that the yakuza are involved in the construction and real estate business and exorted money from buyers through occupants in these properties. 

They make their money off of real estate agents, but real estate agents are the worst people to make money off because they are highly unreliable and in and out of the business when the market changes.Their target should be the consumer with higher levels that they can subscribe too for data, since Zillow is linked to the MLS now which makes their data somewhere more reliable.

Title is not at fault, they settled December correctly.

This will allow you to put the loan into the entity or business name of your choosing.