Tiffanie I will have to investigate what it means to house hack :-) Ben, both actually interest me.

I may have to investigate a few credit unions and smaller community banks.

Further investigation “deep Googling” later revealed that the tenant actually had their wages garnished for court related issues.In addition to the late rent, the tenant had always been a frequent complainer, we fixed each request.

Real estate investigating is not something you can learn like algebra or biology , it’s a passion, its natural entrepreneurship skills and a business way of constantly thinking.

After we investigated (2nd floor tenant wasn't home), we realized that the problem originated from 3rd floor (the problem tenant).

Then investigate their background, credit and eviction records.

Perhaps you should investigate private lending.

I will tell you how to make a quick investigate/forget decision later. • Keeping good tenants in the property.

If the answers to the above question are no, then I would suggest that you start with just doing some investigation based on the electrical bills of the rest of the units.

At the end of the day, if you are buying the property, it's your responsibility to do your due diligence, including investigating the flood zone.We had a seller withhold flood insurance certificates from us when providing the evidence of current insurance and only discovered the need for flood insurance when we had the survey done.