I am from the upstate of South Carolina and visit your area very often. if you ever find yourself down near the Clemson area let me know. we can met for coffee and discuss ideas and plans.  

Site visit was two flights and $400.00.

Ability to visit your property anytime?

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I have a list of pre-foreclosure addresses and I'd like to visit each one, but I want to avoid driving back and forth. 

Funny, I was in Simpsonville visiting family over the summer.

I don't know much about it, but I visited it once and it seemed nice.

They, are all active here and if you visit their websites you can garner an education on the subject that is worth 100x what you will pay for it (free).

Your just learning how to invest, so don't add in the added difficulty of analyzing economies and markets in far-away states you've never visited, only to get lied to by some broker or local wholesaler who tells you what you want to hear so you'll buy, only to have a fire started by the tenant and then need to take off work to fly 5 hours and waste a whole week trying to put things back together.

When I have visited my wife's family (outside of Newark in the burbs), I have seen some areas that look surprisingly like the markets I work in here in the Berwyn/Forest Park neighborhoods in the suburbs of Chicago.