So it's going to be critically important that you familiarize yourself with it. 

You most likely will need to source deals yourself directly.

The authoritative source is FEMA and you can search flood zone ratings here: https://msc.fema.gov/portal/ho...Lenders will require flood insurance if your property is not in Zone X. 

In your opinion what team members and other systems are critical for running a smooth investment business from out of state?

I would strongly encourage you to find another way to source deals if you're limited on cash.

Maybe other cities are different, but my guess is they prefer to work with one city versus a hundred property owners.I don't know if it will be 100 property owners since they'll probably mount on right-of-way things like power poles since they need some source of power which are usually city-controlled.In that case, I'll take dealing with 10000 prop owners (since I can just ask a neighbor, if a guy says no) instead of someone at the city looking for pole (NOT poll) taxes. 

Efficiency and effectiveness drops off too quickly below freezing to my understanding.Thus I would keep the gas...Also, if you want to get into the “power outage” scenarios... at least gas is “available” power source (unless there is an earthquake).

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But for some reason this means they don't always want to disclose all sources of income... when you're trying to get a mortgage, that's not a good time to hide income sources. :)

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