Quote from @Natalie Allie: If you are still considering the Land Bank in Detroit listings, just be careful to check with the city on whether or not the water needs to be reconnected.

Check out the book "Long-Distance Real Estate Investing" by David Greene.

Check out Hawaiian village, Papillion great school district, etc.  

The website 51west.properties also scores low on scam advisor ("owner is using a service to hide their identity, high number of suspicious websites on the server, registrar has a high % of spammers and fraud sites, website is (very) young, website appears to be hosted by a company with a bad reputation", all according to https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/51west.properties...)Trust your instincts. 

@Isadore NelsonYes, you can check the county clerk’s website or office.

.*** Please note, the claim check would be made out to the Named Insured (your personal name), not the LLC.  

You will want to check to see why it is so high.

Now that it is in a Special Needs trust my attorney advises that it would not be a good idea to charge him rent because some of his disability check would be funneled right into his his special needs trust.

I would say earned it.I will check out bank financing.

You either do it or remind tenants to do it and even then you would have to check they actually do it.