See if lease has personal guarantee.Individual corporate guarantee from a smaller operator can be weakest because they can BK that one location and walk away from it while running other stores.

A few are below in no particular order.Grocery store checkout magazine barometer - if Time, People and those other yappy magazines start having cover page headlines about new stock market strategies, "new economy" stories, "how to invest in gold or real estate" stories and so on, proceed with caution. 

also, there is a extra column "bankruptcy" , some of the properties marked " BK Hold" whereas some didn't. for this particular one, it didn't marked " BK Hold". when I looked up this property online, most of the websites said its off market.

Hello all,I am wondering what online sites do you use to find info on city demographics free or paid? 

an online bank will make sure the entire 60k is there when you need it and should give you 1.8% I believe Ally bank also has a no penalty 11 month CD which pays a bit more, the money just has to stay in there for a week for you to be able to close the entire account whenever you want. 

Did lot of research online but seems like all the information I gathered so far leads to a dead end.

Ask her to help you look at a couple properties online and run them thru a financial model.

For this unit, I purchased from Lowes online, used my military discount, and set up the delivery right to the property.

All the tenants are Contractor, retirees, Nurse, store manager,etc.

All of the "best places to live" lists and articles online aren't the perfect fit because they often heavily weigh the local employment market, a factor that will be of little relevance to me when I eventually make this jump.