There are other FHA requirements concerning which you should contact your local lender, but determining whether or not a triplex or fourplex meets the self-sufficiency rule is a good place to start as this rule will immediately eliminate many properties from your search.  

I also have a vonage box at home which is an internet phone you can take to another location but that is associated with a sit down office where I need to make international calls at times (not this business).  

Recently I've been reaching out to other investors and people in real estate and have learned it's WAYYY easier to ask somebody a question and get an answer than go searching through books and internet posts.great advice.

I'm looking into doing his course so I'll have the fast track to much of this information without all the bobbing and weaving we can get caught up in on the internet. 

In these days of Internet real estate searching, there's a belief that physical real estate office location doesn't matter and that walk-in traffic doesn't exist.  

I started off driving slow through neighborhoods and closely examining every property to determine if it was vacant.

You can use these sites to help determine what strategy you'd like.Online Resources

Not to diminish their importance but aside from the legalities, ethics and complexities involved, if you have actually done subject to's, what are the overwhelming determining factors that would make a property a candidate for a subject to?  

I've determined its time to really delve in head first, better now than never.  

Card operated Laundry - There are card systems available, where tenants load the card at your office or online (requires internet connection, payment gateway).