Its titled in Md , run the registration at the DNR , the boat may belong to someone else .  

If there's a way to collect the fee and run Credit check / Background check, that would be a great tool for an investor who is not full time yet (such as myself).

Betting its good old fashioned foundation damage.You will want to have not only an inspector take a look, but you might see if you can find a foundation company or structural engineer to check things out and get you a quote, because most inspectors will just tell you its a foundation issue and not provide any background on the scope.Foundation issues are common in Texas, every house you will come across will have issues to some extent.

I want to get a lot of properties and have my wife run the business as property manager, so it would be her getting the leases signed later.

She could give you the run down on the process.

Like others above, I would caution you that buying rehabbed properties in that price range are almost certainly going to not work out for you in the long run when you are investing at a distance.  

At some point before you get to far if you are thinking about splitting the property, have a local engineer look at it. 

I think the issues that you are going to run into is that technically you incurred these costs before you started your rental activities and before you placed the property into service.

In my part of Virginia there are neighborhoods that run the gamut and many times they're fairly close to each other.

You are running a business selling a product.