I think that with a little research here on BP, you could easily handle screening tenants and setting up a lease.

With frivolous suits, an attorney will typically do a quick check to see if the subject of the suit has any easily attachable assets. 

Although I'd be concerned with whether it is an easily rentable property.

When I purchased my home, my real estate agent could easily spot foundation issues and steered me clear of those properties.I'm probably more interested in rental properties at the moment.  

Unless there is some historical value or the building is extremely good condition AND the new property is nearby and easily accessible I would say the "play" on this is to push away from the table.On a completely separate note, when I put in the @ mark to tag you, I don't get the normal name list popping up. 

An alternative property data list website called agentpro247.com that I came across during my research seems to be able to filter properties by whether or not they are delinquent on their taxes.  

I would think if you are wanting to invest with a possible lower quality tenant base for higher returns you might want to look into another state where you can more easily evict and have more rights.

If they laid tile right on the subfloor and its cracking chances are it will come up pretty easily.

After the Trulia / Zillow merger announcement of a few months back, this one is easily the second most significant in real estate this year.In push to diversify, News Corp. buying Move for $950 millionWhat implications do you think this will have for the online real estate space?

Mark Forest The thing about CAP rates is they are easily and frequently misused.CAP rates are only useful to compare the cost of cash-flows in a local market, and then only if each CAP is calculated using the same method {you and I could calculate the CAP for a given building and get different results}.