If the tenant is a pain then I would wait till the unit is vacant. 

Yes, the margins are a little less than being very hands on with an Airbnb, but they handle thousands of properties probably just like the one you are looking for. 

I'm sure there must be a reason you are picking a place thousands of miles from home to invest (not what I would suggest) but - I would travel to the area, spend a couple of days getting to know the place, and attend a REIA meeting to meet some fellow investors before I'd through a bunch of money at it.

So from your opinion, is it best to wait?

Can't wait to be a realtor!

I'll post a few questions to whoever is willing to answer:1) Given the high rates right now, with 2 more on the way this year, should I wait till next Spring to buy rather than this fall?

Most Boris facing imminent foreclosure what happily take 10 or 20 thousand walk away and I'm speaking of the ones with a lot of equity in their property already and yet they're fixing to lose it for different reasons.

I really like this property or should I wait for a duplex in the same area?

I told him I still didn't think it worked, but he said we had to wait for the home to settle before we knew anything. 

Then instead of half a dozen or dozen buyers you have to weed through and determine if they really have money or not...will really close or not....you open the market to hundreds or a thousand potential motived buyers