The best advice I can offer is to focus on building connections.

Inspections are typically done by licensed professionals like structural engineers, architects, or certified building inspectors.

From the assessor's site, the land-use records show that the encroaching property owner has only been paying taxes for their plotted land, while the subject property has been paying the taxes for land on which the other’s building partially sits.

@Christopher Mooney - I house-hack a 2 Unit Building in Bayridge Brooklyn which is a 45 minute subway ride to Manhattan Wall Street Financial District (a 7 mile drive).

Sure enough the rehab ran over budget (we had a large contingency that was used up -- some due to contractor malfeasance, some due to pulling the trigger on big repairs like a new roof) and the revenues were right around expectations, maybe slightly below.  

@Sara Donohue I don't recommend buying land if there's not an actionable plan whereby the buyer can build.

Contractors, businesspeople, and interested community members are all welcome.

They are contractors after all.

But for an OOS investor one consideration is access to support, first of all PM & contractors, and you have more choices in the much larger Milwaukee metro area than in a smaller submarket.

Then build a team of professionals around you and take action.