John Verduzco I'm with Sperry Van Ness in Texas and my team focuses on helping investors with the disposition of SFR Portfolios.

Loopnet, Sperry Van Ness, CBRE, etc.) where if you register (free) you can search, find and download OM's.

If you are familiar with the Hispanic community in these types of areas you know that there are also many that don't speak english.Am I under-estimating or over-estimating the "web savvy-ness" of my potential tenants?

In Oregon, Stevens Ness has trust deed and quitclaim forms for real estate that are widely used.  

It's not the lender's timeframe it's the busy-ness of the appraisers. 

There will be no soup left for you.Most of us that survived doing this for more than a year were working 'in' our business early on.I like your drive and your scrappy-ness @Raeshelle Cooke. 

you should bottle that and go market to market and build an empire of PM ness

@Sean Snider look for cracks in the foundation, ground level ness to the house can signal shifting, bowing of basement walls, buckling siding. 

@Kyle Majors additionally to what @Zak Parks said, some keywords in the MLS will give you an idea of done-ness, ie: fixer, as-is, etc.  

I also include in each welcome packet a step by step for how to call the power company and report an outage as well as how to reset a flipped breaker.This tenant has been short term so far and has had issues paying rent every month, and makes excessive requests (in frequency and in "reasonable-ness").The tenant is not responsible for deciding if a handyman is needed, but if one is called out and it isnt a landlord responsibility, shouldn't that go back to the tenant?