Should you enter the "buy and hold" game, these skills will be very valuable with regard to tenant selection/retention/elimination.

@Brian Gibbons I read through the Lone Star website extensively prior to posting and he does have a lot of valuable information on the site.

All this sharing of valuable information is wonderful.

If you have not check out Beginner's Guide and other valuable resource.

From the OC Phoenix is a five or six hour drive* and if the money you're going to invest is valuable, it would be worth at least two trips to make sure you're buying a good location.

There's a lot of valuable information as well as some great people on here.

She's from Up North so it's slightly Canadian slanted, but still a valuable read (imho).

show up with a crew to either 1) document removal of everything and relocate to off-site storage and give seller the address and key; 2) put valuable items in a PODS or similar modular storage container and transport to her new local residence or the PODS facility; 3) itemize items (in lots, if necessary) and hold a published auction and send proceeds to seller.

2.Which pieces information about a tenant do you find most valuable when trying to determine whether the tenant will be good quality?

Even if you are paying them $200 or $300 per visit that could be a valuable education on how to estimate rehab costs, and a lot cheaper than getting a property under contract that you can't sell. .