It's a 29 unit park and has a lot of deferred maintenance repair ahead. 

The road ahead is long but I'm glad that others have come before and mapped out the course.

Though we are excited to begin paying mortgage and not rent, we are looking ahead to the goal of financial independence.

In my opinion, the offer to pay all monthly rent in full upon signing a lease is a RED FLAG warning to the landlord of trouble ahead. 

I can really recommend a visit if you love watches! 

We would be interested in finding a company to rent out the apartment for STR so then we can use it when we go back to visit and to ask some other questions on the rental market there. 

IE, some % of people had planned to wait to save up 10% or 15% down, but they jumped on it with 5% or 15% down to get ahead of mortgage rates hitting 5% (which, in hindsight, we know didn't happen, but that wasn't at all necessarily obvious "in the trenches" in 2018).What will happen if we turn on CNN tomorrow, and the headline is that mortgage rates are 3.5%?

In general what areas are best to avoid as I will not be visiting these areas prior to purchasing.

My wife and I are travel nurses which means we are gone for months at a time, the growth we notice on our visits home have been wild! 

If I had wholesaled the property the "traditional" way for $420,000, the profit would have been about $50,000 so I still came out ahead by jumping through hoops to sell the property at the bid up price.Lots learned during this process - while "double closing" the property was quite unconventional for typical wholesaling, in this case it was worth it because the numbers worked, even after tons of selling costs.