Technology advancements such as email, phone calls, skype has enabled communication with a remote CPA to be seamless.

What make D neighborhoods so difficult is the turnover of tenants and the vacancy in between, when houses often get vandalized. 

Essentially, you can set it up so the call goes through via the internet through a WiFi signal (VoIP technology) as opposed as through a cell tower.  

The difficulty in trying to do that at that price range is that it's a much smaller pool of people who can make those kinds of purchases in the kind of time you'd typically need to get a deal done. 

The difficulty is in identifying and contacting the owners of these lots - it's not like you can mail them a letter because there's just nothing left.  

In my experience with residential, the more work that is needed beyond cosmetic the lower the profit at the end, which when coupled with the time required, ends up being a much worse hourly return on your time and money.With the added difficulty of the heirs not being in communication with each other and the rest of the hair on the deal, I would move on.When you first get started, I think most people don't respect the value of their time enough and haven't seen how high a percentage of deals apart. 

You can download a scanner app for your smartphone for free, so using technology, you could have acted faster and saved yourself a trip.

Having worked there and been successful, their pre-approvals are worthless if you have a bad LO or a newbie. every LO is trained to ask for the documents after submitting the pre-approval. clearly anyone who wants financing most likely isn't lying about their financing, but sitting down with a local banker compared to someone over the phone makes no difference. it's 2017 and technology is all around.

Hi Mario,I know at Neu for a while they had so many leads that they were having difficulty keeping up with the demand. 

Network with some colleagues there and see who they are using.If you are still having difficulty finding someone local - you may want to look for an accountant remotely.