Order something from every bar, order something from every restaurant, make the waitresses work for you, tour the place- the restrooms- the kitchens- the back of the house and walk the entire outside of the building. 

If you can't see the property in person, pay an experienced local investor $100 or so (someone unbiased, not your agent or turnkey company) to walk it and do a detailed video tour. 

If you are out of town, have a realtor who works with you and they can facetime your or do a zoom call and take you on a tour of the house.

I reference checked , credit checked and spoke with the tenants and allowed them to tour the property.

Ali Boone has a Detroit investors tour every quarter via Hipster Investments, but they generally look at turnkey.

On our home page lendingwise.com you can take an interactive demo of the system:  Product Tour

Whether it be at a networking event or having a local investor come by our headquarters for a tour, we strive to meet our LP's face to face any chance we can get. 

OOS investors are bidding up Detroit real estate, yet locals can't get past decades of negativity about Detroit to invest there:(You should take a real tour of Detroit and consider investing there!

Make sure your listings have high-quality photos and possibly even virtual tours.

If you tour the property and it looks like a good investment, then I would move forward with an offer that included a discount price based on the cost of eviction.