I also try to get into the property and measure everything if its vacant, so I can have all my renovation plans ready the day of closing. 

If you're aiming for buy and hold deals it can be smart move freeing up cash to fund the next deal.

I’m aiming with long-term rentals first. 

The monetary policy in the USA aims to drive inflation at a constant rate, which is one reason prices increase.

I'm wrapping up a full property renovation here, and am aiming to BRRR this property.

The real aim is to see if OOS investing is something that will work for me (and of course, not incur huge losses).

I would suggest at least 30 days a year of vacancy and I would change this value to 10% for super conservative measures.2.

I took a few videos that you can see the basement (basement wet 1& basement wet 2)   We generally like the neighborhood and the house, but the wet basement is our biggest concern about the house at the moment.We definitely want to be safe and take all precautionary measures to ensure the basement and home stay dry and warm and will want to repair and invest in basement waterproofing.Would you consider a house with water in the basement? 

It was almost a month later before someone came over to measure the closet and then two weeks after this before anything started happening, so we are under the impression that the materials were not pre-ordered (and how would they have been if he didn't have all the details?).

More so aimed at tax benefits and purchasing homes with commercial loans?