When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat.

Wonder if you could take that if you visit a short sale in progress???

I get the following:* Contracting License (and I look it up in the online database)* EPA RRP credentials (for pre-1978 construction) - and verify with lookup online* W9 IRS form (so that they can get 1099 in January, and they are told that will happen)* Liability insurance proof - with me and my company named as certificate holders or additional insured* Workmen's compensation insurance proof - with me and my company named as certificate holders or additional insured* An actual street address for them (not just a P.O. box like some will only give out)* A list of customer references that can be contacted (not that I expect that anybody in this list will be saying bad things)* I go to visit actual job sites, preferably at least one in progress and at least one that is completed - to check for workmanship and tidiness of the job site.I also check the state website for criminal search, to see if they have a record.

Then we visit the grave sites of family and it's just a good time to remember.

Make some phone calls and go visit some of the professionals.

I would never want to even visit some of these turd world s#*t holes they go to, let alone live there.

I especially visited often [REMOVED], biggerpockets wasn't so big about 5 years ago.

I manage my rentals and, when there is not a maintenance request or other specific reason to visit a property, I just do some drive by inspections and an occasional interior inspection of the property, in that respect it would be more management intensive to have a couple SFHs in different locations than a single MF building.

I plan on doing credit and background checks, along with verifying references and employment and making a visit to where they are living currently and see how they are taking care of the place.

I wrote this reply to post in the "Ghost Next Door" thread but decided to post it in a new thread so it wouldn't hi-jack the authors thread...Originally posted by "ofgift":She said she's seen a ghost in the house next to the one I am interested in, and knows other people who have, too.So, do ghosts go visiting?