Beginning to devise a plan for each task will get you going in the right direction.A good place to start is finding out about all the local real estate investor metopes that go on in your area.

@Brian Burke Added some rate limiting for the background tasks of the chat.

For these scenarios, unless I am getting a heck of a steal, I make this a task for the seller as a condition of the sale.Got someone on month to month and just want to ease the transition and minimize damage and eviction expense in the event they don't vacant peacefully....I would go in with $500 plus their full deposit back.Naturally, I assume your situation is somewhere in between those scenarios and logically, so would be my answer.

They also have an awesome albeit pricey software suite to help with the task, but it's the blog, landing pages, email marketing all in one.

@thomas bI must have missed  mar's comment when multi-tasking last night!

I have heard many instances where they get here and do not like something about an area etc. or find out a tax consequence they didn't know of and the deal falls apart.Most investors like the warm belt states for investment and growth.

What tasks are you good at and whats your schedule like?

Home Prices Are Surging 13 Times Faster Than WagesSource: BloombergIn yet another troubling sign regarding the affordability of homeownership, new data shows that the growth in U.S. home prices is beating wage increases 13 to 1.

@Brandon TurnerI know you are nationally focussed, but here to your north, in most (though off the top of my heard, I cannot swear all ... some may use notaries as well) provinces and territories a lawyer performs both tasks (title search and close).

This all comes down to momentum and performing some or all of the above tasks in a consistent manner or a long period of time (greater than 6 months).