Hi All,I'm looking to pick up some properties in VA, and I'm hoping to start with vacant land (yes, I know land investing is a less common strategy).I've been trying to find some good list sources, so I can market to people who own land in my target counties (Frederick, Clarke, Shenandoah, Warren, Fauquier, Rappahannock, Loudoun).

We've got tenants that are flushing tampons and I keep getting clogs.  Both units have signed off on not flushing things like tampons but we cannot tell who is doing it.  Do we have any recourse? 

@Michael Kresloff is the asbestos in the basement the asbestos tiles on the floor (very common here in CT) or is it in the walls/ceilings?

That is THE most common sticking point that I see on postings - where do you find these near-mythical Newbie-friendly Transactional Lenders?

@Nick StangoIf you decide not to use any part of the duplex for personal use and still do not have enough funds to purchase the duplex, you can also consider investing in the duplex using personal and IRA or solo 401k funds under a tenancy-in-common (TIC) purchase.

Some of it is "common sense" to limit ones liability. 

The book(s) are worse than j.ust out of touch with current regs, they are dangerous to the financial health of the newbie who assumes the books are current viable business models.Proceed at your own risk.  

and he pays for electricity in the common areas.  

I'll spare you the whole pitch here, but what I'm offering is a way to take the photos they already have of a property and, instead of just throwing them into a slide show and putting elevator music behind them, putting them into Youtube videos with custom narrations that provide actual useful information and selling messages.No surprise, it's slow getting started since while this is hardly a new idea, it's still not exactly a common practice.

I recently read in Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point" (pg72) that "what separates a great salesman from an average one is the number & quality of the answers they have to the objections  commonly raised by potential clients" or sellers in our case.