Are the repair requests and oversight time consuming? 

Full blown contract products typically flow through contractor or retailer channels and aren't available for direct-to-the-consumer sale.

You could do some research and try to find out if the property is free of liens, which should mean they own it outright, but this may be time consuming.

@Nicholas FieldHi Nicholas you need to focus your attention away from yourself and think like a consumer.

They also went into a lot of the Economic events such as unemployment, Consumer Price Index, etc. to help with their projections.I tried applying it to Stocks at first and it worked well.

I am looking for a 3rd party service to look up property records that services the Dallas/Fort Worth area.I know I can go to appraisal districts and look up records but this can be time consuming.

This sounds time consuming to do it for every property.

For you to go through basically a demolition to a full rebuild will tie up your money, be very time consuming, and very risky for a first deal.

The real issue is that the son probably doesn't have a license in the municipality where the property is and it sometimes can be difficult and time consuming to get licensed in the particular City.

Lastly, it’s MUCH easier to go out and buy one 20 unit property rather than 20 SFHs.SFHs are maintenance intensive, time consuming, and heavily dependent on the market.