I stayed in Oakland during my interview and drove around the city.  

But, I simply am not interested in this stage of the process with so many folks inquiring about the property to do personal interviews.  

Many owners don't even talk to a prospective tenant, they look at applications and do a simple interview with canned questions then approve someone.

Replacing a contractor requires you to admit you made a mistake hiring the contractor, requires having to fire existing contractor,  requires getting new quotes and hiring a new contractor, requires recognizing the project will take longer and cost more than initially planned. 

Where I am looking the house on the water may rent at 30% higher than the house three  houses back but AirDNA does not seem to recognize the added value of water front vs near the water.

We had to fire 2 third party companies before we started our own in-house management company. make sure to interview multiple players, confirm the manage the same asset type/class that you plan on buying.

This is the most important step - there's nearly a 90% failure rate of real estate agents as they get into this industry and I personally believe that it's because a lot of people try to do everything on their own, this is a very complex and can often be complicated industry, there's so many different things from lead generation to lead conversion to appointments to writing and negotiating contracts and managing escrows and all of this stuff, it could be extremely overwhelming, trying to do all of that stuff on your own is a huge mistake, find a great team in your area, interview two or three teams, pick the one that you feel is the best fit for you and you're in alignment with the culture and the goals that they have established.

They interviewed investors from Reddit and the reoccurring theme was they wanted to stick it to Wall Street.

If you're going to hire a property management company then you need to start interviewing companies8.

Aren’t I thrilled.Title does a four-month investigation, interviewing everyone and their brother.