Online or through a realtor?

I can't find anything online that lays out when a property should be considered residential v. commercial.

Use those as practice for analyzing and getting to know your market at the same time.

You can also check their reviews online at Google, Facebook, or Yelp.

The practice allows landlords to engage in “backdoor discrimination” against minorities, domestic violence survivors, female-headed households, veterans, senior citizens, and individuals with disabilities, Cuomo’s office said.More likely than "backdoor discrimination" is that the tenant applicants aren't documenting the non-wage income.

And if you didn't have someone you could trust to do the management in either place you probably still would have lost money.So, if I were you, I would pick several markets with good job and population growth and begin to research them and talk to the realtors and property managers in the area.One of them will likely reveal itself to you to be the right place for you.But definitely don't listen to a bunch of yahoos online :)

The date the mtg was First Recorded against the property is what matters, not when or how many times it was later sold.This is a very clear cut question, and makes All the difference in how it has to be dealt with.Since you have a title co telling you there is a problem, I suspect this is the case.If your county property records and recording information is available online as it is in most places, it would be fairly simple for us to see what happened when, with the address.

In a nutshell, work with a local resource as they have more specific information to give you than a generic online site. 

In regard to your due diligence process I can see where most of that would be available from online/databases.

They typically have quite a bit of info online, but a phone call and a discussion with both departments is a good place to start.