If you're uncomfortable with documents, get a business lawyer to write them for you.

With investors, make sure that it's YOU and your Real Estate attorney that write any sale agreements, not the investor. 

There are a lot of assurances made over the phone that are not in writing.

there are so many falsehoods in what you're writing it's not even worth getting into. 

@Jonah SloveI peaked at around 40 properties in 43608.I have 1 final property as of the writing of this post and the property is under contract to close this week.So, the best answer I can give it the zip code served its purpose to create income and appreciation for a decade.

Check your state/city laws, and if you can re-write the lease agreement after acquisition then you can also mitigate your risks that way.

I am going to just open a separate account and just do deposits of rents and write checks from there.

Constructive notice is the legal fiction that someone received notice of a case that could affect their interest, even if they did not receive it in fact."

These are a good start since they had their layers write them and its free.

But we basically followed David Greene's advice for finding a realtor in Long-Distance Real Estate Investing.Here's a summary of what we were looking for:* An agent who has experience being a landlord/investor and so already shares our perspective (looks for opportunity rather than curb appeal)* An agent who knows the Alexandria area well* An agent who doesn't mind showing us many houses and writing a bunch of lower offers* An agent who doesn't mind sharing their opinion about a property being wrong for us so we can move on to the next oneThere are many great meetups here.