This frees you up from taking resident phone calls, coordinating maintenance, leasing vacancies, accounting P&L's, conducting inspections and making property payments to focus on higher leverage activities.You shouldn't get charged for vacant units, service charges on maintenance items, no lease renewal fees, no startup fees nor cancellation fees.

Is that how you want to conduct your business?

Have you conducted interviews with any of them or just had them fill out applications?

Decision factors involve obtaining accurate renovation cost estimates, assessing the feasibility of an 8-month timeframe, conducting a thorough market analysis, and developing a robust marketing plan.Explore the possibility of selling the property as-is to a buyer interested in renovating it themselves.

Could I take it a step further and have my half of the duplex, my primary residence, be considered my office where I conduct my business and things like paint or a home office set up be deducted?

@Chris Seveney I live in Hawaii and I'm looking to buy rentals in Michigan and do virtual wholesaling, so the business will be conducted in another state. 

If wholesalers do tend to conduct themselves ethically then I'm sure a large majority of the responses here from other people in the real estate industry will support them, I just don't want this to become an unwieldy thread where every wholesaler under the sun feels the need to stick up for themselves.

You nor they can assume improper conduct or noise until it occurs and then, a baby or child crying is something people on the face of the earth tolerate, even in a 55 and older community as they may have a guest!

Yes, these people could have saved themselves some major problems with more due diligence, but blaming the victims takes focus away from the real problem - businesses conducting fraud.

Furthermore, this is why an inspection is usually conducted.