It's significantly less trouble and easier to manage.

Once you have an address of a property that appears to be in distress, you can go to the county assessor to find the owner (even online in some counties) for free (if you don't value your time), or you can use a paid service that will give you all the details right on your phone while you are standing out front, owner or non-owner occupied, value, comps, equity, vacant, even their phone number.

My son was just measuring for window treatments but the home appeared unlived in and the cats were out of control.

But it can become easier the more you work at it; the more deals you do.

Drive the pockets, get a feel for the area and it will be easier for you to make decisions on properties when the time comes.

Investing in Opportunity Zones through qualified Opportunity Funds (QOF)is very interesting to me and the qualified census tracts in my market appear to be poised for growth based on several factors.

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It appears to be old parging that water has gone under and frozen.

See if it appears likely you can get approved for a loan upon refinance.

Once I had more money to put down and landlord experience under my belt financing was much easier to get.