I agree that I would definitely want to do a walk through before buying, especially as I'm first getting into this and don't have a lot of money to spare if things go seriously wrong.

I also plan to airbnb my spare rooms for extra income.

@Richard Ibeh thanks for the feedback I just realized that the condo will provide a spare key to named individual for a small fee.

Spend every cent you can spare on things that will get you quality leads.Grow your buyers list.Get a websiteplace craigslist ads to harvest cash buyers,Write good conversion oriented content on your site.

We started slamming everything we could spare into paying off our loans, we're pretty conservative investors, and by '93 we owned 12 paid off rentals and 1/2 interests in 4 others with family members. 

most of my note investors came from the landlord game and tired of it.. .and many own rentals learn of notes and use their spare cash to start stacking up notes.. this gives them nice cash flow that comes in if rent is missed one month but no headaches of landlording.. although must pick notes carefully of course.. so that's an option if you have cash you can do short term lending for when you perceive it may be a buyers market again for rentals..but frankly many that I have had over the years and I have been doing notes since the middle 80s  they never look back.. when they get enough cash they buy another... also no recapture to worry about.. but no tax write-offs either. 

I'm working a full-time w-2 job and working on the client list in my spare time, or lack of. 

I'll spare you the technical details, but this is a situation you'd want to avoid. 

Crazy how time flies...Anyway, in my spare time, I have built a 100% free (seriously) real estate exam prep website.

And they aren’t someone’s spare bedroom.