If you structure the deal right, you should have milestones or phase schedules, each extension of time should be approved and in writing, if its not black and white, it doesn't exist. try to take a video on his employees, see if you could get another super in there if he runs multi jobs. i would visit a site at least every other day if im running two or more, just to check progress.

Visit a local Mom-n-Pop nursery and ask what will work in your area and do it.

the furnace in question just needed a cleaning of some contacts, so it did "miraculously" come back to life during his visit. As

Before I do a development, I will visit a site many many times and then look at market data seemingly thousands of times to be sure.

That's a great idea to visit a Sheriff's sale as a practice run to learn.

You'll need to visit a few of these areas, maybe on a vacation swing, and make contacts with seasoned investors/wholesalers on the ground there.

We thought we had found a good management company, but on going to visit a couple of weeks ago found numerous problems in the house, all to do with total neglect.

Here are a few ideas on how to hunt down the property owners:Search public records (you'll have to subscribe to a service)Form a relationship with an agent (they have access to this info and can you get the owners)Form a relationship with a title agent and they can get you this info for freeTry http://www.propertyshark.com/You can also visit a local assessor's office to obtain the information in-person:The Assessor's office does not provide owner name information on their website.

I want a quick and easy way to visit a property, take pictures and add notes of items to be fixed.

If he denies access, send notice that he is breaking his lease terms and will be charged for the repairman's visit as you now have to pay for a return visit. As