If you are really confident with your first tour through the property waive the inspection, or bring your contractor with you to visually inspect as you go through.

I feel the structure was horrible for the following reasons: all classes were recorded live and constantly had technical difficulties (lots of empty audio or visual), the classes were on eastern time which was 8-11 PM my time (which was hard to stay awake when you've been up since 5 AM for your day job), if you have a question you have to contact a third party who then transfers your inquiry (2-3 days wait was average to get a question answered), your only face-to-face contact was at the annual symposium.

I'm not a huge fan but am not creative enough to visualize it.

In the past I have gone in as a contractor or as a person from the management company looking to take over to conduct a visual inspection. 

Trees, shrubs and plants can add visual appeal and even provide shade which makes the property more valuable.

Physically mailing these letters that include visual imagery can resonate better than being lost in email inboxes.Having a folder of saved templates for common forms such as leases, renewals, rent increases, inherited tenants, move in/move out reports, lead paint disclosures, etc. help expedite preparing these as they are usually the same few forms that are continually repeated.Protest property taxes yearly.

You can read more about my experience here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/850/topics/759279-building-adu-in-san-jose-california3D visualization of my ADU: https://my.matterport.com/mode...On Dec. 17, 2019, the San Jose City Council approved easing ADU requirements to align with new state laws.

What I would do instead is arrange for a contractor who is familiar with lead abatement to do a walkthrough of the house, or at least whatever areas are easily accessible, and have them do a visual size-up of the property.

I have lived through furnaces being stolen from the property, water heaters taken, siding removed from  the houses that had siding,   Copper pipes being ripped out of our houses, to Ministers who rented our homes saying they could visualize themselves living there forever, but inside meaning to never pay the rent of course.

Even if the issue is on 2 properties out of 10, well they maybe exactly those rare opportunities that other investors overlooled.Same for Airdna or mashvisor.These tools are even dangerous because they present the results in such a nice professional way that a novice investor will trust the quality of the visuals, regardless of the quality of the underlying data that they ignore.