I live about 2 hours away.

My properties are in TX, but I live in NV.

Some investors prefer to start saving for these ASAP, while others plan to deal with them when they happen.The unknown is Maintenance costs, which are often dictated by how "hard" a tenant lives in a property.

What is their incentive to pay the rent at a location they are not living in?

Do you live next to Luke AFB where everyone could be military? 

I live in CA but am open to investing anywhere that makes financial sense.

Lenders will allow parents to be a non-occupying co-borrower on a home your college student plans to live in.

It's basically yearly treatment to protect the home from termites.

They actually failed to pay taxes in 1983 as well according to the follow up article below. 2 years later in 2017 the County reversed the sale voting 7-4 against “these out of town speculators trying to make a big payday” and for the fine people of their district. https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/SF-supervisors-to-vo... well if the county sups could unravel it then the rules have certainly changed from my days of buying CA tax sales in the 60 70s and 80s.. once they went to bid 4 assets and away from the live auction the screaming deals were done.

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