Thank you very much for the excellent, down-to-earth, and personalized thoughts & advice.

When average families can’t even find a house to buy for themselves at a decent price, how on earth are people finding deals that are 20-30% under market value after rehab costs?

And when you say "use savings" - do you mean all of your earthly savings, or just cash you have on hand?

Most of these parking lots/ shopping centers have extra spots or areas which never seem to be filled with cars, so it seems like a lay up for them to generate extra revenue with little-to-no effort on their end.Finally, short of looking on the DOT and county sites, is there a way to build a large list of these "ideal properties" with contact info without having to spend hrs driving around or looking on Google Earth and researching contact info on the county site?

Why on earth would I ever want to let someone with horrible credit, etc rent a half a million dollar place?

If you're seeing the flat earth and then the house, the lean will be fairly noticeable, however if you add a middle transitional layer, you will do a much better job blending it all together.

I still bounce back and forth on deciding whether to go out and look at the property vs. just trusting what i see on Google Earth/Street. 

 :)  My family has a cabin there and it's one of my favorite places on earth.  

One of the most down to earth professionals we have met in the space thus far!

My background is in healthcare, and we are regulated to the end of the earth.