You may also want to have the person confirm upon arrival and looking at the unit what your expectations are, that they can do the job at the specified price, and that you will not pay for the job until it is completed (assuming you're hiring on a job basis and not hourly).

Just confirmed with our insurance agent: this has no bearing on the rates.

Thank you @Andy Collins that was very helpful and I want to confirm that I am doing the correct things to evaluate the market.

My day job is software engineering where I build iPhone, iPad apps and web apps.

People will always need agents".There was a time when bookstores thought Amazon was no big deal.There was a time, not even very long ago, when even computer scientists thought it would be impossible for software to drive a car. 

The numbers are not good enough for a flip so I just wanted to confirm.  

So getting a property inspection, conducting full due diligence on the property, confirming the property management team looks good, etc.

Thank you Hattie, and I will definitely check out the software mentioned.

So some banks put these into a dormant state automatically with their (broken) banking software.

Based in my initial research, it appears that Washington is in fact the only state in the union which forbids wholesalers to work with owner occupied, but I thought I would reach out to the Bigger Pockets community for confirmation.