Much of my career was focused on REO properties, during which I ran a parallel small business that handled property inspections and performed BPOs for banks.

We handled everything in-house from the point that we acquired the properties to listing them on our website and pushing them out thru an internal sales force that did outbound calls to investors.

I'm curious how you ended up handling it?

We are looking to wholesale outside of our chosen market to help build capital for projects within our chosen market (Louisiana) as I have potential deals in other markets and am not confident in how to proceed with them contractually, (don't want to be stuck with a bill I can't handle currently and also want to ensure I'm operating correctly).

I invest out of state in Pittsburgh from DC and self-manage everything, but it's taken me years to establish the right contacts, develop seamless processes etc. that allow me to handle everything remotely with confidence.

There are property management companies that handle everything—from guest check-ins to maintenance—so you don’t have to worry about being hands-on.

This is a task to handle carefully and at arms length. 

.: Thanks for the replies I totally understand you can not eliminate risk 100%I was just wondering if there was a safer way to handle this. 

I think the idea of planning on selling 1-2 lots per exchange might be easer to handle.

As someone who has read Harry Potter, it seems the best way to get the attention of the landlord is to send a scary looking giant to their home residence with a kindly worded letter.More seriously, I was on the other side of the coin previously where my wife put the ads up under her accounts instead of mine, so I couldn't check them without getting on her phone and I was inundated with people looking to see the property (probably 50 over a 5 day period) and was trying to send semi-personalized notes to each one--and it all ended up being too much to handle and I ended up ghosting or not replying to many people after I found an applicant.