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Besides doing some research about the area, crime reports etc...I would pay a visit with a professional who could analyze the construction (since it's not a cheap purchase). 

The rates will likely be more favorable.If you're going through with this, I would encourage you to visit your local REAI group and see if there's a person willing to partner with you; a person who has a construction background.  

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Ask to take them to lunch or perhaps ask if you can visit their rehab in progress.If you do that enough times, you will learn what you need to know, and develop the relationships that will help build your business.

Even out of my local clients, 2/3 never visited my office in person, there's simply no need for it.So you can browse this forum and choose whomever you like, no matter where the office is located.

Always remember 24 hour notice and you can visit as well in person.

I always get the story that the dog is "just visiting" and I tell them that dogs cannot even step foot on the parking lot.  

Would the home to a property count since the property is not my business and is merely me showing a client a property -- part of my secondary job and what I would think would be a temporary location since we likely won't ever visit it again. 

If your tenant's faucet starts to leak through no fault of their own, you're saying they have to pay the first $100 of the repair visit/cost in order that they "maintain it" in the condition it was received.