Couple articles about it https://www.bakersfield.com/columnists/robert-pric...https://www.bakersfield.com/news/amazon-plans-million-square-foot-fulfillment-center-next-to-meadows/article_3f1ae04a-aa28-11e8-9258-479cabb00bdc.html

.; he provides seller’s reports so I can better analyze the deal; if something looks good, I get my contractor involved and we all talk about it.My agent and I also have an understanding that I need to network with other agents to increase my deal potential, he gets that.

Some of the reports are a short tax assessment and others with a much more detailed description of property, several years of sale history, tax appraisal history, sketches of square footage, road conditions, a current picture, owner history, and comments made by last assessor.

It is also odd that the title co. is involved in modifying the possession date. 

My second spreadsheet is mostly pulled from census data/trulia/zillow (so I take the numbers with a grain of salt) but it lists on the X axis the zipcodes as well as the county as a whole.On the Y axis it lists: average listing price, median sale price (90 day period), median sale price versus last year, price per square foot, price per square foot versus last year, median rent per month, vacancy rate, annual property growth value, number of rentals on the market for that month, median rent versus last year, median rent divided by 1BD/2BD/3BD etc etc, median age, median household income, school districts, single residents, college educated percentage, percent home owners, population growth etc (there's more but I feel this is sufficient to get the point)3.)

Speedway, fountain Square, Bates Hendricks and by Woodruff Place.

So I say to them, if nothing happened you shouldn't have a problem signing this.So if having to show continuous dates, if that's absolutely necessary, and nothing happened, OP can offer to sign a hold harmless affidavit for the dates involved, and have the policy backdated.

One question I had was what are all the roles/jobs involved in buying and holding a rental property.

You can do the transaction personally, but can't get your 401k involved.

There are a lot of good options out there.For general info, and to semi piggyback on what Chris says-https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2015/12/2...It's an old article, and the markets have changed since then, but the same idea still applies.I've primarily always bought turnkeys and am involved in a lot of markets.