@Chan Park this can all be handled via phone, pics, preferably narrated video - you shouldn't need to go and see it yourself.

Quote from @Drew Sygit:My apologies w/my earlier post (below), I was on my phone and not laptop so it wasn't tagging.I will if I may add some additional thoughts...1) The appraisals I've seen in these markets are no where near Zillow estimates. 

I would get on the phone with a local lender through a local bank. 

They want to pick up the phone and call or text and get an instant response from their cleaners.

The good subs in your area will likely have plenty of work already and may not even return phone calls.

But this one doesn't return investor phone calls or request for financials.

Contractor burnout is another concern.Owners like to think it's so easy to just pick up the phone or send a mass email to get contractors beating down their door to give them a bid and hopefully get the job.Doesn't work that way!

One potential mentor I had one phone call with and never contacted him again. 

The building tradesmen are busy too, but I just called ABC and got the name of a guy who buys alot of bitumen roofing so as to get a quote on a leaky patio cover, got a guy to bid cement board skirting on a stick house by calling Palm Harbor mfgr home sales center, got a card from a guy working across the street doing drywall repair and put it in my phone.

. - You should hop on a phone call with some agents in the market you are interested in and ask about the area, their experience, to run some numbers with you and then even do some virtual tours with you of some active listings. 2.