Here's a sample product: https://www.amazon.com/Spectra...If they have any leftover, they can hold onto it as a home-defense remedy.I recommend changing your lease to make tenants responsible for ordinary pest control, meaning anything that an ordinary person is capable of doing: swatting a fly, spraying wasps, bait traps for sugar ants, etc.

Once accepted I would fly out and walk the neighborhood personally. 

An investor owning in a weak suburban area might have fewer options to sell than a major metro such as Austin Texas where many investors can fly in and see the property.Austin Texas is ranked one of the hottest investment areas in the country.

I have another search service that can pull in public information, and in that service when searching under the name of my subject of interest property's owner, since he was a builder/developer in the area; there was 12 properties that he either purchased or sold and only one or two of them listed a 3rd party lender (mortgage), and neither was related to the property of interest.Short of flying there to visit the county recorder's office (called Superior Clerk of the Court in this locality/state), or enticing a local realtor to do some research for me (and hoping they don't take my deal away from me, when they realize this could be an opportunity for them as an investor versus being my agent)...what else needs to be done to definitively track down mortgage or title information on this building?

This will not fly before any district magisterial judge in this county, of any political persuasion.

Anything odd and the red flags fly.

Im looking to do my first fix and flip in Tampa FL. I

I have a 2 story duplex in Tampa, Fl. I

Especially here in Dallas where everything is flying off the shelves. 

If you have a 3/2 in the middle of a neighborhood and have 10 person bachelor party every weekend, that's probably not going to fly.