My choices that I give myself1.

Not to mention that price-point may impact your choice as (with any luck) you'll find someone that lives, eats, and breathes that market. 

Check in with the office that administers the Section 8 program (usually the local Housing Authority) and find out if there's anything different you need to do because the tenant has a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher. 

The owners should have been sent written notices and given the choice of having the screens put on their windows.

But I do know realistically those are probably hard to find.So as an alternative, I'm looking for a real estate agent who has worked with out of town investors and who are willing to work on weekends because that's when I'm free.

If you're getting a loan, the bank will almost always make the choice of the appraiser.

Alternatively, some will let you search and if you input the street name it will lost all of the addresses.

My choice.

I haven't gotten to the point where I max out tax deferred and "backdoor contributions" (it's a goal)  But you have me thinking...I also have some gold and silver and I think I've read "alternative investments" should make up around 10% of a diversified portfolio.....would real estate qualify as an "alternative investment?"

Although there are many variations, a cap rate is often calculated as the ratio between the net operating income produced by an asset and the original capital cost (the price paid to buy the asset) or alternatively its current market value."