I normally listen on my drive to work @ 1.5x speed but started it again regular speed just to take notes. 

Spent a lot of time driving around and checking out neighborhoods.

I would look up the city's development site and see where new development or public dollars are going.Once you get that info, find about 10 neighborhoods, go out and drive them and reduce the number down to about 2-4.

The needs of real estate investors are very different from the needs of "normal" insurance clients who just live in a house they own, and drive a few cars.PLEASE, for your sake and the local market as a whole, only work with insurance professionals who can demonstrate a deep and thorough understanding of your needs as a real estate investor. 

If it is completely outdated and you need new bathrooms and kitchen on top of the basic stuff, you better be getting great ROI before you drop that kind of money.

Once the constable drives away all bets are off.

The third party leasing companies are able to leverage economies of scale/ bulk buying power on equipment / vertical integration to drive costs down such that they can install solar cheaply enough that they will be making money on the system very quickly if not immediately (by selling the tax credits to banks/investors/tax equity funds and by selling energy back to the grid at a premium) .

I live in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia and when I am driving to and from work I see lots of bandit signs and my heart just flutters because I know that I need to get into the game.

Not to mention probalby an extra $500/month or more in cash FLOW, which is my driving force. 

My understanding was a sandwich lease is basically someone you lease to subletting your unit or re-leasing to someone else.