Especially if you are planning to fly out to meet each team member, you'll need to incorporate the cost of travel as well as the value of your time ( and really, do not discount how valuable your own time is) into the total cost of your investment.

Avoid company's that appear to be fly by night or those promising you the moon.

I'm in Fort Lauderdale and stuff is still flying off the shelve.

For example firefighters in San Jose and other Bay Area cities have a track record of flying in from the Midwest for their 4 day shifts, and flying back after, so that can fly.

Will you fly down to handle staging and arranging the furniture?

PROPERTY TYPE: If residential is flying off the shelf, try commercial or special use. 

Much more relaxing than dodging flying debris as they chip up the tile floors.  

Since I always use the same title officer, he calls the same underwriter and/or corporate attorney for approval "just like last time" and it flies through with no further problem. 

This is no time for breaking in virgins to the headache-world, the "Pros" are dropping like flies b.

If you like it you put in an offer and fly down to check it out within your inspection period.