Make sure the agent brings a good LED flashlight, too, you'll probably need it to look in darker spaces.

Finally the journey has led me here. 

Research about other investments led me to "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" and changed my perspective completely.

This wiring is rated to 60C cannot handle the level of heat created my many modern (pre LED) fixtures ... most notably pot lights and halogen fixtures.  

Since that time, I've immersed myself in everything I could find about becoming a real estate investor, which led me to the BiggerPockets podcast.

yes right now I am reading a book about it, which led me to this forum. 

Naturally this led the person to come to our property & set our tenant's car on fire.

This has led me to look out of state, something I would not have thought about even 2 months ago.

The area I am looking in has bungalows built in the 1920s, which has led me to focus on the condition of the foundation as the biggest type of expense. 

@James Wise  Per your request.Coming out of the late 1800s most of the major west coast cities that we know and love like LA  SF  PDX SEATAC were all subdivided by the same engineering firms  at least SF and Portlandia were.. this led to land speculators in the day going out into the Western deserts and other remote areas.. buying what were large land holdings , Spanish land grants and other lands that were not govmit owned.. then in the day you could simply create massive subdivisions buy doing basic surveys off of the base and meridian lines.. which all of the west is surveyed off of... this is called section land.then create these massive tracks of lots.. some were like up in the apple valley, Lancaster,  Barstow type areas mainly 5 acre tracts.. and were done on a grid pattern.. streets in ( mapped but not built)  and of course spiraled out of a small little town off the railroad track or the few roads that existed in those days.. you took your map and recorded it at the county, county was happy they just got 5 thousand lots they could send out tax bills on..