Upfront fees, super low rates ,  any amount of funds, just need you name and simple information dead give always.To be quite honest it is common sense when you see these guys who are complete scam artist.Alex

We were very very careful to make sure this wouldn't happen because of all the interest in the property and it's common for people to pull these shenanigans to get a property under contract and accepted for a ridiculous price and then later back out and reduce the offer for the "appraised value" so we wrote a special clause into our counter proposal.On top of all this the roofer that I had hired took my $1k and ran off with the material money and also hired and scammed another roofing company that tore off the existing roof.

Run your numbers using the asking price as the assessed value to get a more realistic number of what it will be for you.Mowing:  You have 6 lots to mow in it's current state plus common areas.  

The seminar environment was a little "peppy" for me personally but I'm a pretty low key guy.On the tour, the speaker gave out good advice, handled common objections you'd expect from new investors and was respectful of my time and local knowledge.I left after the tour so I can't say what went on afterwards but I got some value out of my time there.1.

You have a reasonable Contact Us form - - far from the common web definition of a Landing Page.*** RANT ON ***I'm sure there are those here at BL that will take issue with my comment, but believe it or not, IEEE, W3C and web standards all predate BP and generating our own terms does not promote clarity.*** RANT OFF ***

The track season short term rentals and constant demand from people employed at the Navy training facility could make it work well for buy & hold. 

I'm not a realtor, but before you bash me take a look at the comments from Realtors about the source of the article: http://realtormag.realtor.org/daily-news/2016/02/17/best-place-be-real-estate-agent From this link: "Does anyone at NAR check this info or do you just copy and paste it thinking that no one will notice that it simply doesn't pass the common sense test?

When you're self employed it's WAY more difficult to get a loan approved and I think you have to prove income as being self employed for 2 years.

When you are self-employed, they are irrelevant.

Verify their income and employment .