Then any rental income you could obtain from that property could be used as an income source for loan pre-qualification.

I ask to take a walk through and document the current condition as my agreement states they can not damage the property during this process. and of course don't give them anything until you have walked through verified they are out and have voluntarily handed over keys. 

You might be surprised, but your rental properties have more in common with dividend-paying stocks than you think!

I have had a long term interest in purchasing an investment property and I'm looking to be smarter about this.

Is the process the same as buying property in Canada?

We now invest in the Detroit market place where we have established a great team on the ground and are finding properties with great numbers.

I came across this brand new property, in a great intersection that’s leased out to LazyDog restaurant & running well.

Focus on absentee owners and start with the ones who live the farthest away and only own one property in the area since they have the least use for the property.You can also drive for dollars, looking for anomalies of disrepair and then look them up in the tax records and use a site like Spokeo to do cheap skip tracing.

And plenty of people wholesale mls all the time and get deals it's actually quite common.

Similarly, if you put several Class D tenants in a Class A 4-plex, what do you think will happen to the property?