I'd avoid dark colours because chips will show more easily. 

I was searching pre-foreclosures, vacant listings and shadow properties.  

Laser tape measure, or a real one to measure rooms.Bolt cutters or a small tool kit that goes in the car.Powerful flashlight for looking in dark homes.A few spin key boxes to put on vacant homes.Books on real estate, like The Millionaire Real Estate Agent book, The One Thing, or The Millionaire Real Estate Investor.Some kind of BP subscription or books.

I don’t think I’d do a STNL NNN property as the cap rates are still quite low, and it’s an all or nothing bet…and there have been plenty of formerly “solid” STNLs going dark left and right, and in all sorts of decent markets.

If you are not dealing with a national tenant the tenant could never open, go dark in 1 year, etc.

A numbers game means, you have no control, just shoot in the dark in all directions and the more you shoot the more probability you have.That is not only wrong, it is moronic.This is lead gen done right.Does this look like a numbers game?

But he recognizes now in the darkness a faint illumination which glows constantly out of the gateway to the law.Now he no longer has much time to live.

Might not want to go with that particular platform...https://www.fastcompany.com/90891909/the-dark-reality-of-the...House share/rent by room is not a new thing by any stretch of the imagination...Just know what you are getting yourself into

You can also shadow a successful flipper and the learn the ropes.

I would also reach out to different brokerages and see if they'll allow you to go in and shadow for a little bit.