A tear down can provide far more challanges, permits, inspections, time and money.

Have her inform you of any problems with the home that she is aware of; make a visual inspection and determine what help you need to proceed.

I did inspections on all houses and there's a fair amount of stuff, as can be expected.

Get closer to the city and the prices shoot up a lot and the rents to not keep pace.

We even do a home inspection of their current property to make sure things look good.

Example: Fort Worth TX---2007 duplex, 2100 sqft, 3 bedroom 2 bath each side costs $85,000 and total rent is $1,550/month Portland/Eugene OR--2007 duplex 2100 sqft, 3 bedroom 2 bath each side costs $380,000 (maybe closer to $430,000) and total rent is $2,400/month.

But we have also thought of offering services for property inspections and to take pictures for out of state investors...

I know its not as easy to get in to inspect occupied residents particularly seven of them.

@David Perry yes I did have to put down 3.5%, but then during the inspection I was picky and ending up getting $4,000 in selling repair credit, on top of doing a seller concession to cover the closing cost.

I usually require a new security deposit on the new house and will refund the old one as necessary after they are out and it's inspected.