However, if you see yourself as an "employee" the education may be worth while. 

that might cause the owners to re-evaluate whether they really need 12 cats.....

They may not swing a hammer or show units anymore, but they still have to keep their employees (and we are talking 5-8 employees typically) on task and make tons of financial decisions (like buying carpet by the container load).  

In commercial property your NOI (which is your gross rent minus your expenses) is the main factor in evaluating the value of a property. you want high rents and low expenses, and in most cases the renovation of the building is what can make that possible.

As communicated by my office we have sent employees of ABC to sit and wait for the police at your house for multiple hours on several days.

I am evaluating a real estate investment in San Antonio that has some foundation issues.

Wondering, how do evaluate properties from foreclosures, auctions or out of state sales, if you don't have access to see the inside of the property? 

This is evaluating my hard work finding scarce deals and putting equal value to it.The way I see it, I had a lot more risk than the flipper would have.A flipper CAN do due diligence, find out an accurate ARV, and even subtract 10, 20, 30K from the ARV just to be sure, and calculate quite accurately what the minimum profit will be he will be making.He can then say yes or no to said deal, and no big deal.Me as the wholesaler have no such luxury.

So calculate your money VS time when evaluating repairs on your soon to be home.Good luck to you guys!!!!

After trying to figure out if it was better to have employees or tenants, I chose tenants.