Ultimately I think the main focus of the visit is to familiarize yourself with the property (since you have not seen it in person yet) and check on the rehab work and meet your contractor and PM. 

This is a summary of learnings from a recent project I personally completed.  
Steps involved:
1. Buy a home with a large backyard
2. Get permits to build a detached ADU (DADU)/backyard cottage in the backyard
3. ...

I would consider single family homes as well but multifamily is the ultimate goal.

My ultimate goal is to keep scaling buy 2-3 LTR and hopefully a 4+ plex hopefully within the next 12 months.

Ultimately, I realized that trying to wait for a perfect moment feels a lot like attempting to time the stock market or predict a real estate bubble.There may be advantages to waiting and seeing how the election affects market policies, but it's hard to predict when those policies will take effect or how they’ll impact the market.

I think you'd be making a great choice if you decide to move here. 

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Their explanation is that the banking service they use (Thread Bank) and their agreement with Stripe (payments) leaves them with no choice but refund if such a request is made, even though they have records of the tenant authorizing payments via their own platform.

My tenant ultimately rehomed their cats (which had been indoor/outdoor despite my policy that all cats are strictly indoor) because they found them to be too much responsibility for their current situation which made me sad.

However, I agree with most of you that half the time was spent on pitching their $40k program is the way to financial freedom and your only choice to attain your goal etc.