@Josh McCullough  most offices are ghost towns these days... most agents work from home and go to the office for meetings pick up mail etc.

You may want to decide between the more steady buy and hold or the faster pace flip to help pick a property and strategy...perhaps a full flip book like those on BP if that is the course and I have some low cost or free (at library) books on landlording if that is the next stop,in journey (see the blog post "classics of lanldord lit" on my profile)...BP has calculators for both strategies....

If your looking to buy we need to get you set up on an automatic search so the system can start pulling options for you so you will have plenty of options to choose from when it's time to pick a house. 

I ask because I'm very familiar with the West Pullman area  as we have 3 SFH there that we have picked up and I have a bit of information that may help.

Now I can pick a vacant property, take a picture, grab the address and almost not even slow the car down.

Unfortunately for me I picked a poor time to finally set a moving date!

Looking forward to picking a few brains.

My team picks up wholesale deals in both King (including Eastside & South King) and Snohomish County and we recently started marketing in Pierce County as well.  

@Kevin Fox Not trying to be argumentative but this is what it looks like on Zillow Foreclosure data which is where I picked up the 5 I'm considering now; two of which I've already put offers in on and one which is a pocket listing that another agent is actually renting.I know what the stats say and have no reason to doubt them.

You have picked Cleveland as the victim city in your response, Cleveland is a strong RE Investment space, it all boils down to the same logic as anything else, no matter where you are in the country, you need to  have a good plan, team, asset in place for your out of state investment to be a success.