I’d love to help with the search and assess the viability of the property as a rental after you and your family have moved out.Please feel free to give me a call/message/email at any time.Kevin

I have come across a few that will do their own assessment without an appraisal but they will still want to drive to the property to see it. 

Ours in Fort Worth are B and C properties.True story on one of the duplexes: the appraisal district wanted to raise our assessed value from $145,000 to $175,000- pretty big jump.

If you want to get involved in the day to day & make an active business buy a distressed property cash, renovate it & refinance.

Hello, are there any Realtors on here who are also active investors.

Brenton,Be careful,  if you materially do NOT participate in your rental activities you cannot deduct standard 25k passive losses.

The partnership return reports to the IRS and State the partnership's activity during the year.

Assess properties in your chosen market to see if either has potential.

Summer demand is pretty good in many of these locations, too, because there are a lot of summer activities, and many of the ski mountains do mountain biking in the summer. 

His name will be appearing on the unlicensed activity records of the state in the near future.