The banks are allot more strict now and there is no easy money to just take on leverage rapidly without cash or assets to finance it.

For example, do I go by neighborhood, zip code, or city?

We have very strict tenant laws.

It would be helpful managementwise to set up the door hardware to be a digital lock that the tenants pay for the code for the week online.

Besides that, appraisers typically use a condition code, C1 being new construction, C2 being very updated with little to no deferred maintenance or physical depreciation, and so on.

Just curious, if someone tried electronic loks with chngable codes - online system access management? 

I did a extensive amount of research on note investing and wanted to see if anyone would be willing to share their knowledge with me on my first note purchase, which I aim to do within the next 30 days; holding me to a strict timeline will force me to take the leap of faith.

The reason you don't find a whole lot of info on that online is that is very specific to the property and local codes along with the utility company.

A recent Bankrate report lists low inventory, builder's inability to keep up with demand, an influx of new buyers, strict lending standards, low rates, and muted foreclosure activity as the six reasons why they believe no crash is on the horizon.

Where we currently invest, we have strict Tenant/Landlord laws making it very difficult to increase rents and almost impossible to evict a tenant (even for the best of reasons!).