Ohio, for example, has a nice online system that lets you look at oil and gas well data, which includes production, type of well, name, etc.With oil and gas, you ought to consider an attorney.

There was some chitter chatter about them expanding their footprint to a few other counties (they only lend on real estate within their specific county footprint of business), one cost of that would have been no longer being able to offer that HELOC (I guess the HELOC is a good "gateway product" to get new checking/savings account customers, new car loan and wealth management customers, you get the idea).

I have time and money to invest, it's just that I am not physically able to spend large amounts of  time in the US.   

I'm going to make a list of questions and sit down with the lender and hammer out the details so I fully understand the product.

I don't know if this is specifically the case with Chase, but some banks and credit unions have subsidiary appraisal management companies collecting that appraisal fee, so that would be even better for the bank if that is the case.The other garbage estimator websites, like Zillow or Redfin, do the same stuff, but are aimed at bringing business in the door for their primary customers -- real estate agents (you, the person reading this, are the product being sold).

They will probably want you to put it into production sooner rather than later, though.  

My product (houses) and services must provide value before I receive compensation...it's called sales.

supercheapsigns.com Great products, user friendly and pretty quick turn around

FHA requires that you physically occupy the house (or just one of the units if there is more than one) for at least one year.

Rentals) as the taxes are paid by escrow or the due dates are the same (or practically) every year and there's a few different ways to find out what how much the tax bill ill and to pay it without physically holding the bill in your hand/possession.