The author and article suggests to utilize the climate risk data before committing to an investment and be familiar with specific risks in your area—whether it’s floods, wildfires or heat waves.They recommend these valuable tools to assess these risks:FEMA National Risk Index – Provides a comprehensive overview of natural hazards across the U.S., including floods, earthquakes, and severe storms.USDA Wildfire Risk to Communities – Offers detailed insights into wildfire risks for homes in specific regions, particularly useful for properties near forests or dry areas.Risk Factor – Analyzes flood, fire, and other climate-related threats for individual properties, giving you a risk score.Climate Check – Delivers property-specific climate risk ratings, covering heat, drought, fire, and floods.Do you consider environmental factors like flood and heat when investing?

Knowing the monthly rent helps you assess the tenant’s financial stability.

A few of those cautions include the investigation of existing encumbrances on the ground (zoning requirements, existing or proposed easements and assessments, encroachments, etc.), existing site conditions (high ground water, site topography, existing soil types and soil environmental concerns, etc.), the location, depth, and capacity of utilities to service the site - including public utilities (sanitary, storm and water services), franchised utilities (power, gas, cable), capacity of the local streets to accommodate additional traffic from your development...Be sure to find out if there are any specific local ordinances you need to satisfy (possible tree & wetland surveys, together with any necessary tree & landscape or wetland mitigation plans) and whether there are any concerns from municipal departments (e.g. hydrant locations from the fire department, storm inlet and retention requirements, as well as asphalt / concrete road requirements from the engineer), entrance requirements from the road commission (left turn and passing lanes at the site entrance), etc.Once you get past all this you can finally prepare a preliminary site plan and enter the political arena to get preliminary site plan approval, and to address any concessions the board and neighbors want from you to overcome their objections to your development.

Orange and Broward counties in FL have so many bidders, they usually go well above the assessed value.

A comprehensive plan providing jobs and home financing in those area would certainly be a big help toward restabilizing those communities and making housing and worker opportunities available again.My $0.02 ...

DU and LPA are automated underwriting systems (AUS) is used to assess mortgage applicants' eligibility.

That being said, most lenders will require at least two years of W2 tax returns to verify income and assess risk when granting a loan, so acquiring finance may be complex. 

@Wayne KingI have not used them, although I've heard of them a few years ago.However, if you are still on the fence after finding someone who used them - Buy a few leads—start with a small test amount—and assess their quality for yourself.

Property taxes in Columbus were re-assessed in January of 2024.

No agenda, I don't like helping out the competition either, so this is probably the one and only time I will do anything other than try to cut you off at the knees.My honest assessment on you after your interview is that you should fire all 38 of your agents.