watch out for additional leans and verify taxes are current.#2. 

***The old tradition Growing up, my parents owned a decent sized but standard 4 bed, 2.5 bath, two stories with additional finished third floor for storage, ironing and home office.

These are professionals with additional training and a stricter code of ethics.

They must go through additional training and certification so be sure to verify this.

Nathan Willard if your a college student and assuming work part-time, would you be able to convince the landlord you by yourself can pay 2k in monthly rent in addition to your other expenses?

They were an older couple moving into their kid's house and the kids were finishing up an addition for them to live in.What I learned was that each lead is different, you have to be solving a problem for them to want to sell you their house.

In addition, go to the market where you want to invest, plan on attending a few local REI events.

We can rent it for the duration and In addition, the property values will  likely continue to rise, and if we are overpriced, there is better chance of keeping our expected profits. 

A lot of wholesalers will do this already and refer you to a contractor that they have at no additional charge.I am not sure the exact business model you are thinking of here.

@Peter Bui I think you need to recheck your mortgage numbers and I would anticipate additional capex and repairs in this type of product and age of the triplex.