Additionally, they may want to seek legal or financial advice to ensure they make the best decision for their specific circumstances.If after all this if you still looking to take advantage of such opportunity, I would verbalize in your new duty station that you invest in real-estate and that are looking to take over a loan.

There is far more prep, detail and care that goes in to doing a decent job and it's super time consuming.

There's so many catalysts for population and job growth (Intel, Honda, Amazon, Nationwide Hospital, etc).

It all depends on what you plan on doing with the $80K on whether its a good opportunity or not.

That means we've gone through all the horror stories, scammers, folks running off with money, shoddy work, etc.So you'll probably find few, if any, folks willing to hand those relationships over.My advice would be to test folks out on small jobs and work them up to doing larger ones.

If both of these properties are in the same market it's probably best for you to work with just one agent that does a great job.

that's good opportunity, why dont you make offer right away ?

If you want to build a tool to help you identify opportunity faster, you have to basically take those manual underwriting skills and codify them somehow.My program's approach is basically my manual approach, it just doesn't have any photos/videos to work with.

Yes, they are more difficult to sell (the average homeowner won't be able to buy them, but other investors ARE constantly looking for apartment building offerings- especially the smaller, easier to manage ones, perhaps you reduce the rent for a handy tenant to be the 'maintenance guy', and a smaller complex he can handle in addition to his 'day job'... with multiple units, you get more rent money 'per door'- and if one or two is in transition (not rented), you have the others to make up the shortfall. 

Great opportunity to see the flooring underneath and make repairs if necessary.