I have received the following msg from my PM:"We have experienced our fuse box trip twice while no one is home- with little to nothing turned on.

Take a trip to the county courthouse and look up where the tax bill is mailed for the property.

I am planning a trip out that way in the summer and would like talk to you over the phone and perhaps meet you once I am out that way. 

Marketing execs all over the country have been tripping over themselves for years to find the answer.

On one of our trips to see houses, things started to look better for us.

You will most likely need to take a couple of trips (write offs).

Keeping the wonky mechanic theme:If the 4cyl, air-cooled engine in your 1975 VW camper needed a new top-end (all four cylinders), but you decided to replace (rehab) only two cylinders ... you won't be leaving the driveway for that trip to Burning Man.When I look at a partially renovated property, I go in with the position that if the vendor was too underfunded to complete the project, than it is more than possible that s/her also took shortcuts in the work which has been completed.  

@Todd Heintz If your going to be an out of state investor then I'd suggest taking a few trips down to the market first and aligning yourself with a team who shares in your core values.  

My friend got a nice little 3BR/1BA home for $0 down & 5 years of cheap payments, and I'll get a nice cash flow to help pay for my 6 month RV trip I'm taking with my family from Florida to Alaska and 20+ National parks!

I don't see any offer to the buyer for warrants, a dividend stream, or access to part of the land to subdivide, or really anything else that would seem to be a benefit to the buyer.But I would think that the buyer would be opening themselves up for what is likely drama on the other side, or worse, opening you up to lawsuits if someone trips and falls, risk that the seller puts a lean on the property, risk that the seller doesn't take care of the property, or forces you to pay for repairs and maintenance..Now maybe your point is go in and figure out what the seller is trying to accomplish and offer something that gets you a return on investment