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Here’s a 10-step process to get started with out-of-state real estate investing:Research and Select a Market:Identify markets with strong economic fundamentals, job growth, population growth, and potential for real estate appreciation.Consider factors like rental demand, vacancy rates, and local landlord-tenant laws.

You can invest in any market selecting the ones that you believe are seeing the most growth, and do it from anywhere.

It is much more hands on and dependent upon some sort of subject matter expertise.

This framing of path of progress vs re-development is helpful too in sorting out strategies.

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I found this one literally from passing though the area and seeing that they had started some sort of reno with a dumpster out front.

The only people I have ever see benefit from doing cost seg were active real estate professionals that could actually offset the additional losses against some sort of income. 

Do you mean there is some sort of deposit for bidding that is non refundable?

When they cannot remove the tenants they can’t fix the units.It is also an overreach, what the city could start with is helping the landlords deal with their tenants, perhaps starting some sort of arbitration system.