I have done things with attorneys, CPAs, stock brokers, insurance brokers and others successful in business.General business knowledge, understanding of financing requirements, knowing property valuations, maturity in personal financial matters to give general advice, understanding of the foreclosure process, legal aspects as to liability in leading someone into financial matters, fully understanding fraud issues and the differences in a general matter where fraud might be applied as generally thought of and what may constitute bank fraud causing or even attempting to cause a loss to an insured bank having different standards.

You can take some risk and get an easy 10% (buy a rental off the MLS)... or you can invest some time and inherit more risk (buy directly from sellers or distressed properties with unknown issues) and get even higher.What are you comfortable with?

@Bernard Barbour you can now also tag your posts with "Augusta, Georgia".

Today, I hate it,  especially for the issues you cited above. 

I have done some Google research and articles point out concern for not being able to see the decking and determine if there are issues and fix them. 

HI BP,I've been thinking about what to ask from tenants in case of issues...besides a copy of their gov't ID (Drivers or passport), credit report stating full name, address and birthday, what else do you all typically ask for?

Markets like Reno, NV and to some extent Vegas will continue to have housing supply issues that will drive appreciation and increase rents.

I'm clearly not the only one having this issue.

Now if your agent isn't providing you good deals and is giving you inaccurate numbers then that's an issue that you shouldn't have to deal with.

Tied to an SEC shelf registration where the issuing firm says they will issue debt over a period of time in the form of medium term notes.Depending on what role you want to play you may need to be licensed or otherwise regulated.MTNs are mostly for companies that want to borrow funds for projects, working capital, etc.