I generally rule out most single family homes as viable rentals, as prices are pretty high relative to rents, so aside from some downtown neighborhoods, typically you do not find large areas of single family rental neighborhoods (a median sale price on a 3 bed, 2 bath home so far this year in Dane County on MLS sales data is at $430k). 

It works but the premise is more for large, rural land and doubling your money & I wanted to target other types of property.  

The scammer may promise to help the victim get out of debt or improve their financial situation, but in reality, they have no intention of helping the victim and are only interested in taking ownership of the asset.Once the victim takes out the loan, the scammer may siphon off the funds or use them for their own purposes, leaving the victim with a large debt and no asset to show for it.

My son is 22 years old and leading his 2nd large rehab (1st was about $40k, 2nd will likely be $50k).  

And you create a situation where you are totally dependent.For most people in the US OOS investing does not make sense, the economic delta is not large enough to justify the additnal cost and management burden. 

Agents:I've read/heard that areas are largely represented by specific agents. 

Sometimes you can find a large enough company that you can sub everything out to them and get paid on a commission or flat fee basis, or you can get the property platted and sell it that way.

I think rental property is being taken without compensation because by-in-large the real estate community is not putting up a fight. 

I have done demo work with a large excavator on my mom's farm a long time ago and it does not take much to turn a house into rubble - literally an hour.

I cut off PMs that constantly try to find ways to add revenues by what I call trickery; selling some 3rd party service that they have contracted to all their clients, recommending small fixes turn into large one's,etc, make it difficult to get 2nd opinions.