First, ensure your credit score is up to par to receive your pre approval.

Timing will be key with rentals, as this neighborhood’s rental market is on a 9/1 lease cycle, meaning we will need to be done with renovations by July latest to ensure potential tenants have time to walk the finished product prior to lease signing.

Whenever you are buying a property out of state you should do a few things to ensure it's as smooth as possible.Don't buy in the roughest neighborhood in the urban core.

Data I get through Spokeo and Intellius is horrible.

Just ensure that you have the capability to track income and expenses for each property - it will make tax time a lot easier and ensure you have an idea which properties are the real winners and losers.For small time investors, you could use QuickBooks Self Employed (not the best but it's only $5/month).

How do you know if the home you're buying is a 'good purchase' or at least do all you can to ensure the likeliness of such a major financial decision?

Also what would be a best financial structure for partnership with developers when the value I bring is database, architecture and working with big data to increase profitability?

I have driven around and checked the crime data.

There are absolute net leases where the Tenant is responsible to pay for those items directly, however, in this case you would be responsible to ensure they are paid and then bill the Tenant directly as "Additional Rent" in the Lease.

I also appreciate that Chris responds to what folks say about this company both the turnkey and PM, it shows that his effort in ensuring a quality service.