And, it’s secretly what I wanted to hear.

Unless there is something secret about this deal, this sounds like your about to either make someone else rich, or take their trash?

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And there are plenty of "secret shoppers" posing as tenants to test you.  

Going 1-step further, and I am tickling on handing out my secret-sauce here, get familiar with the replacement cost of things.

Playing devils advocate here (because I'm secretly trying to get you to talk me into moving back, ha), how would one go about investing remotely?

Perhaps in the secret town of OH where you invest, you would be correct.

There is no big secret - it's about networking (I have been known to buy properties no one else even got a chance to see), about knowing how to cherry pick the MLS (yup we have made some fantastic MLS buys) and about knowing where to buy and how to quickly analyze a property potential / rehab.

Chris Prefontaine secretly records calls of home sellers without them knowing in multiply States and PRETENDS to be a home buyer from PrePropertySolutions on behalf of his students, who have a completely separate LLC's, so that Chris Prefontaine has zero liability!