I'm looking to purchase an investment property in Allentown PA.

Have your notified your insurance agent/company that you are no longer living in the property and that it's under renovation?

Once they have seen the property and are interested, the prequalification and background checks will do the rest of the work in weeding out undesirable tenants for you. 

Hey Barbara, I have a property manager I can recommend for the LAIC service.

And yes, you are still responsible for wiring earnest money to the closing attorney/title company when you put the property under contract.

I am a property owner in central Texas of a multi-family home.

The property or properties will be in Florida and/or Alabama.

That being said, some "property managers" are real estate agents and NOT a property manager.   

Quote from @Kelly Giarrocco: I bought a vacant property on Sherriff sale last year on the ********** site.1.

I’m new to private money lending, so while I understand the concepts in principle, I’m still figuring out how to identify and connect with these investors in practice.To clarify, I’m targeting 6+ unit multifamily properties, and private money is a way to scale my expertise from smaller properties into larger ones.