You also risk waking a sleeping giant.

Today we came home and there was a giant gaping hole in the floor that my dog almost fell through.

And in general you may find that people that are not able to handle paying rent on their own, they generally will not be able to maintain the property well or be a good neighbor to your other tenants.However, you will hear from some(even in this thread) that will swear by Section 8 and insist that you will not have issues or problems at any greater likeliness that renting in general.

However, what I am struggling with right now is that I a not able to scope out a neighborhoods as I am looking to invest out of state in cities I have no idea about ( I live in California bay area and looking to invest elsewhere).

Unless you forsee some giant housing collapse, then it's always a good time to buy.

I'm not able to see the inside of the property either.

I don't think another giant crash is coming but I do think those (borderline) investor-only ecosystems could find themselves in a precarious spot.

Hello All I have done a search on how to screen a real estate agent from out of state but I was not able to yield any satisfactory results to this question.

If you could combine the lots into one giant lot and build more than five units I would do that.

I am not able to get insurance based on my claim history on my rental properties in the past 2 years.