If your contractors are raising their price to travel longer to the job , thats normal.  

If they were able to enter through customs and get a stamp showing they are here legally I would probably accept that.However, I must say that in my limited (3 separate tenants) experience the biggest issue I had was one guy smoking on the premise when it was prohibited.

One of my units requested to terminate their lease early because of a neighbors cigarette smoke bothering them.

If you want to travel, I would suggest you do it to spend some time touring the neighborhoods you are targeting, then leave it to your ground team to view the property.

"you either smoke, or you get smoked....and you got smoked!!"

If that excuse came from an attorney they were blowing smoke. :) 

If so, we would love to hear from you.2   US business checking accounts - any bankers out there who would open business checking accounts for our US registered Corp and LLC remotely, ie without the need for us to travel to US. 

A couple of them can work remotely and just travel the world while making 300 to 500K/year. 

Many of us that live around here travel back and forth over the stateline on a daily basis for work, family, shopping, doctors, anything. 

LOLHoly smokes, 200 checking accounts?