You will need a lawyer.You will need an appraisal.You will need a home inspection.You will need title insurance.You will need a contract with the Seller.You will need some sort of partnership agreement if not a bog standard common law agreement as defined by your state.You will need a survey.You will need to heed the advice of the attorney in whether you need any other documents, and in what any document must provide for.You will need to have in your above documents what happens if you don’t like what is revealed or if there is a failure to get a document.The presence of a real estate agent is irrelevant to those things.Do NOT focus on saving the commission.

They were using the mailing address to pretend they had physical presence as is required by the state.

We’ve done a lot of improvements and renovations to it in the last year and half and this year plan to use a HELOC to purchase our first BRRRR.We’ve always known the rental market here is strong due to the military presence, but had no idea of the improvements happening around the Murchison area.

Here's an article about the importance of building a network (and how to do it).Once you've worked out your game plan and you're ready to start building an online presence I'd be happy to give you some pointers. 

Can't find much about them.. little to no presence could be either really good or really bad..

The Vancouver market is already one of the if not the most unaffordable in the world, which reflects the fact that prices are in bubble territory whichever measure you use.

If you are interested in how to decrease your Federal Taxes and increase your cash-flow, I can help with no-cost consulting or studies specific to your property(ies) whether they are small or large and anywhere in the US or US Territories. 

For 5+ units in general, your income is not needed in most cases since thats commercial territory. 

There is a similar complex nearby which we know was closed with hard money... we really don't feel comfortable going the hard money route just because the products I've seen (so far) on an asset like this are borderline usury territory (!) 

Things are a lot more organized up here in the Northern Territories and we don't get hurricanes.