I did not enter the house before I bid, but I did case the exterior thoroughly and I also had additional intelligence on the place.It doesn't matter if the tenant forges the lease or actually has one.

Leveraging intelligently can often accelerate and exponentially grow a portfolio, so yes having the right financing is key. 

Whenever there is an annual cap for a rent increase, the intelligent response from landlords is to always raise the rent by the maximum amount unless that would be higher than the open market.

One of the most intelligent and strongest wholesalers I know started at 26 and would run circles around 90% of the people 2x his age. 

I purchased a whole bunch of real estate books to learn all the basics so I can engage intelligently in real estate related conversations and plan to join a local meetup group today. 

I'm definitely partial to the out of state thing, I do it... you have to do it intelligently.

Are you going to send your super genius and intelligent bot out to yet another central repository secured database that contains and updates mortgage position?

I consider myself pretty intelligent in math and coding and wondering if going to college would be a good idea, anything helps, let me know.

Is there anyone that can speak intelligently about it and familiar with the area?

Also, unless you use an electronic lockbox on the front door, you may want to use intelligent locks, which require Internet access, which requires power.No question that there are many reasons why you should turn on utilities, not the least of which would be to better understand how the plumbing and electrical is working given the property has been vacant for a while, but I can't think of one reason why you shouldn't, including the one about saving money, because I am fairly confident that not having utilities will end up costing you alot more than you might think.Best of luck on your project!