"Closing Costs" are a generic term that carries a variety of meanings depending on who you speak to.

However, in general there are people out there willing to pay more than market value for a home for a variety of reasons.

I think what you really want is a website designer/programmer...most VAs typically do more admin-related work, not necessarily design work (although some VAs do a wide variety of tasks).

John Berg:In some jurisdictions if it is revealed you did not pull permits {which will happen as it is part of your disclosure as a "professional"} an annotation will be placed on the title of the property and title will not be transferrable until any missed permits and inspections have been addressed .... even if that means reopening your walls because you missed your rough-in inspections.

I had the inspection and it revealed several significant issues.

A simple Google search on them reveals enough that would make me run away.

And you know how that can go.Sounds to me like the whole picture has not yet revealed itself.

As Ann Bellamy points out, the title of the thread can mean a variety of different angles of getting involved with the asset class.

I have a wide variety of locations and if one area starts having a crime problem or big layoffs like in Oshkosh, then the other properties still remain strong allowing me options to mitigate that loss, however if I just had a 80 unit complex in any area and that came into crime or other triuble my options to fix that are more limited.

That's why the variety of BP member experience is so valuable.