SADLY that was way before I came across this amazing website last week!

I had a house that the Realtor kept taking MISERABLE photos TWICE, sadly I was living halfway around the world trying to coordinate and give input.

I've been wondering what resources everyone uses to examine a property when they can't see it immediately or at all.I haven't invested yet but I've been using the MLS to find properties, BiggerPockets to run numbers, Google Maps' to examine what the neighborhood looks like through Street View and what businesses, if any, are nearby, Zillow's Lot Lines to see nearby property values at a glance, Rentometer to find out average and median rent price for the area (although it's no longer letting me analyze properties for free, sadly) and Great Schools .org to find out what the district is like for any potential family moving in.If anyone has additional sites or apps they regularly or sometimes use, let me know!

I've sadly been hearing stories of investors left at closing without funding when their private money lenders bailed on them last second.

I can't tell you how many investors I tried to warn, and sure enough they come back months later with a sad story of how they lost thousands.

My long answer is that there's sadly not really a short way.  

It's sad to leave the midwest and realize I am in a worse cash-flow market.

Sadly this has more to do with anemic economic growth regionally (there are a few bright spots), than common sense not to chase a housing price train.  

Sad cuz I was intending on being the first person (unless it happened n I am still in the dark about it) to b on a podcast, telling of my rise to passive investment success, getting to the "Famous 4", n not having an answer for questions 1 n 2 due to not reading books about RE investing or business management or some jazz.

(It's just sad that it's taken this long to realize it!)