He’s thorough, fairly priced, and recently helped us avoid a bad property.We’ve had him inspect our last few properties and plan to hire him again on our next property.

If your deal underwriting is conservative enough such that the numbers are gonna provide you a fairly large margin anyway, the one-time cost of going to/from your destination should not make or break your numbers.

You need to make sure you offer with a good amount of lease option money to the seller and be fair with your expectations or the minute they run a ridiculous scenario/ offer by their attorney or realtor, you're out like the fat kid in 5th grade dodge ball! 

The last thing they want is to sell a property they can't ensure, has clear and marketable title.

I office from home and he is great at ensuring all of my home office deductions are accounted for.

I, for one, will start asking to see a government id to ensure the name on the application matches the person handing it to me.

The buyers get their money back, no question about it.They had a financing contingency, and they cannot get the financing.It was most likely in the contract that the buyer needs to apply for the loan and get an appraisal, within a certain number of days. etc  It is the agents responsibility to ensure that these are getting done. 

If you get a letter (and not the actual order), ensure that it's on official command letterhead and has contact info for the officer or SNCO/CPO that signed the letter. 

Fair warning it's sort of long.I've been hosting an Airbnb room as a hobby in my primary residence for several months now.

I've read the Chicago RLTO summary and read enough posts here to understand his point of view.But how do I now ensure that the tenant will behave properly ?