There should be permit records with a site plan showing the location of the septic tank as well as the rest of the system.

Many web sites for that. 

Your goal is to grow incrementally every day. https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/9985/64722-its...Above is a really good article I came across yesterday.

In a lot of ways, C, C+, B, etc are in the eye of the beholder, so look for a place you (and potential compatible tenants/roommates) will be comfortable moving around in every day and forget what grade someone else might give it.Once you have the basic requirements decided, I'd go on a real estate sales site (Zillow is my personal favorite, but also Redfin, Realtor.com etc) and just start looking around at listings in your price range to find affordable neighborhoods to target and start driving around, then drive drive drive.

It's great to see more people from Nova Scotia on this site!

Then some tourist kid has the gall to be site-seeing while you get your 20 minute break from your 14 hr days.

I'm new to the site and currently own a residential home in southern Michigan that I rent out as a Vacation Rental.

I wrote a blog post on this. https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/9607/71901-thi...Now as far as payment goes there are many ways to handle this.

You can start by asking them a serious of questions to vet them, see my other blog post https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/9607/71901-things-to-ask-your-general-contractor?

I have learned a lot from this site and the podcasts.