Flipping PropertiesIf the primary objective of your real estate business, or one of your real estate businesses, is to buy, potentially fix up an existing property and resell it within one year, the Internal Revenue Service can consider that to be an active trade or business.

You might be able to discover who that agent is by looking at local listings online and have a chat before committing to a trip there. 

I found this site while doing some research on various real estate deals online.  

It's an 8-hour class and it's on-line, you can review it as often as you want.You're going into business.

I personally prefer classroom vs online courses if your schedule permits.

@Chris Jurgens the values you see on line are not a realistic way to assess what the property is worth in Dayton. 

As Wayne said, you can find a good bit of info online, and by talking to the building dept to see if there are any open cases.

Appraisers are prohibited from advocating so their opinions are as objective as you can get in this highly subjective field.

You can look online and see if it is listed yet, until it is there is not much you can do.

The objective of the partnership would be to flip and sell in the short term and potentially look for buy and hold properties down the road.