Water damage is one thing but getting smoke smell completely can be tricky! 

Hey Alex,I get where you’re coming from - these situations can be a minefield, especially when the tenant has been using the space for years.

Lots of leg work, calls and emails, but if you can find a few deals that could get you started with enough capital to get into your first deal on your own.

It also gives you multiple work surfaces so you can have more than one person in the kitchen without getting in each others' way.

Get a title search done. 

I believe that the technically correct answer is that they all moved from California to Texas and Florida, whereupon they realized that it gets extremely hot and humid in those places, has extremely variable weather, and large insects, and are now leaving Texas and Florida. 

Wholesalers (no offense to those in the comments) who are doing this without being a foreign entity are probably co-wholesaling which is on the borderline and practically acting as an agent without a license or getting referral fees by having actual wholesalers on the ground doing deals and they just provide the leads which is different than wholesaling.

Don't get stuck in education / analysis paralysis.

You can get more bang for your buck. 

If anyone can point me in the right direction for this math, I will see if I can get it built into this dashboard.Thank you to any who can provide guidance, insight or want to collaborate.