I'm new here to the forums and I've been reading a lot of different posts and articles around the VA Home Loan benefit.

A 5% physical vacancy might be correct but you will probably have the occasional non-payer that takes a month to evict. 

Here’s my question, are there investors out there that actually buy property without having seen them physically themselves; buying without stepping foot in and walking the floors?

Even clients that have been with me for years are worried that that might not even have the opportunity to sell next week if their city or town goes into lock-down.This week potential clients are saying that they don't want to invest in appointments right now because they don't know if they will physically be able to show houses because of quarantines or lock-downs.I can't fault their logic so I'm looking for a way to help them in the meantime.

@Michinori Kaneko we've thought about it. given my background in business and managing projects it's def something we've discussed as an optionya, we are getting pretty serious haha. haven't been overly impressed with GCs or PMs so figured we'd just have her get the license and we'd manage it all and then handle all property mgmt. will definitely be a learning curve because its managing physical units vs software but will be a fun challenge and yes, stock market was wild today / past week. real estate is a great asset class :)

These articles always miss (or strategically avoid) all the things you mentioned and more. 

It is completely possible for you to build a team remotely, and I have written a pretty extensive article about finding a property manager (that isn't complete garbage) haha. hit me up and remind me to send you the link when I get off work (can't pull it up on this computer for whatever reason).Also, you can 100% build your network from long distance.

Thanks so much @Dave Meyer for writing that excellent article and making the data available.

Hard to be a caretaker if you don't have access to the property.But hey, I always get a good chuckle out of reading news articles about wanna be lawyers, so go ahead, what could possibly go wrong....

I've scouted places both physically and online in Milwaukee - single-family homes, South Side Chicago (Woodlawn area) - condos, and in NW Indiana (Hammond & Whiting) - multifamily and single-family homes.