If you have a good title agent like I do, they'll pick up the phone and call the seller to see what's going on.  

At the time of key pick up $3000 will be due.

As a new agent, my advice would be to pick a brokerage that has more than 25+ active agents already in it and that can provide you an ongoing training & office support system. 

You can pull most of the same lists as Propstream. 

@Bryan Hartlen We have not seen many of our investors (new and old) utilize BiggerPockets as a resource in recent years but I'd be happy to send you a list of investors that would agree to speak with you to gain insight from their experiences.

Let me know your favorite ways to do a deal like this.Property is currently not listed on the MLS and it's owned by another local investor / contractor.Let me know your thoughts?

@Michael Tompkins suggest you start networking with local real estate agents to offer your services to make repairs on their listing transactions. 

She's got a property that looks perfect for me right now so we're going to be deciding in the next couple days.I know I'll be back looking in SA once this property gets listed.

List it, not really sure what else to sayGood luck 

Trying not to micro-manage, but also understanding these will ultimately be my responsibility if something goes wrong.Kim, also thank you for the NARPM info, that is quite a wealth of info and a list of hundreds of PMs.