Although D neighborhoods may cash flow on paper, in reality these are more suited to very hands-on local investors.

The owner of the property I purchased is litigious in that they have filed a number of frivolous law suits in reference to the property. 

All these will effect long term appreciation and rents.  

They're often high quality and cost-effective.

Yep for one especially in the early stages a hard credit pull would not be useful, just have them do soft checks for the time being and opt out of credit solicitation: www.optoutprescreen.com I could be biased... that said typically working with one lender than can help regardless of where you're looking and having a relationship with that will provide the easiest and most cost effective route long term. 

Hi @NA*I am not affiliated with Sodt Pull Solutions*To perform soft credit pulls on potential borrowers, services like Soft Pull Solutions can be highly effective.

Last week I made a post about getting a US mortgage as a US citizen who lives abroad (https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/49/topics/1219693-getti...). People responded by explaining that residential mortgage lenders ...

Being abroad adds risk to your file and terms will be effected in some way or another.  

Then you add the compounding effect of hurricane Dorian and it was crickets.

Since Zillow doesn’t allow live links in messages (even links to articles on their own site), it’s also challenging to direct people to my own website, where integrating a chatbot would be much simpler and more effective.