Basically you need to know what you are doing in DM or Online for it to work, otherwise, you will spend thousands of dollars without success@Jonathan Krauser.

Unfortunately most have made lifestyle changes relying on checks that will never be cashed but can't fault the inexperienced investors with the amount of materials online, social media etc. where coaches, mentors and gurus share the ease in which they generated massive wealth in these neighborhoods.

Short answer @Yixiong Pan is of course it's possible! 

You can of course do whatever you want,  but you may want to reconsider.   

As mentioned no need to hire a private investigator just use an online service to do a background check.

Hell, having laminate is better than having carpet carpet imo (assuming good quality of course).

this would be exceedingly rare to find any PML who puts their money out for 30 years.there are note investors of course that buy 30 year paper as in defaulted notes but they are paying a very big discount to get them.

I don't know your criteria for a good deal, but if you're strictly looking on market for a quad in Raleigh you likely won't find one in the near future that meets what you're looking for.I have been looking in both Raleigh and Charlotte for the past few months and I barely came across any good deals at least online.

Is looking online at sites like LoopNet sufficient? 

Hey Jason thanks for the tip.