I have seen cases where a house shows up on the google earth pictures, only to find out later that the house is no longer there... razed by code enforcement.

Let’s agree that state by state it varies, my broker straight up hedged to the end of the earth and wouldn’t tell me what I should charge for commission.

Google earth is good however sometimes it’s a year or two later and you never see the inside.  

The price was ~ $2.5M and assuming a "regular" commercial loan, after the debt-service, the cash flow was just ~ $3K per month.Now why on earth would anyone put $625K down for something that returns $3K/month?

Hell on earth

@Erica RobertsWoodI hate to rub salt in the wound for you but why on earth would give a tenant hundreds of dollars for service work ?

However, even if that were the case, he didn't have to drop off the face of the earth.

Certified appraisals in PDF, tax and appraisal district information online, google earth, title information via county clerks online, comps via NAR or Loopnet/Costar, etc have made “virtual investing” a reality

Preaching the good word about the evils of stocks is what you were put here on earth to do and it shows!

Dude is a down to earth Bostonian!