My principal investment environment is hyper-expensive and competitive (listings longer than 6-7 days are considered stale) and yet we are able to find opportunities by using free online resources and by burning shoe leather. 

Addressing the problems is like trying to put out small individual fires in a forest that is burning.

This concept applied to OOS investing would be great, not only at the purchase but also during projects or checks on the units.do you use Renteria by chance  Sal is a good friend.. we were neighbors at Silverado.. talk about an American success story.. comes from Mexico as a Barber now lives in a mansion on top of Silverado.. his did not burn down..

Land is so expensive it isn't worth it unless you have tons of it laying around to burn.

In my area you’d easily burn through $50k before even breaking ground.

feels like it burns a quarter of a tank just driving to a local store and back though.

Contractors aren't going to burn hours of their time for free for you to see if you want to buy the house or not.

Work - Work - Work is destined to make you a dull burned out young lady and a less than optimum employee. 

If recourse or partial we try to negotiate a burn off where guarantee goes away after year 6 for example or a certain LTV is reached.

But I am burned out on public education and I really don't want to start over in a new school in Ohio.