Alternately, you can simply pay for the service of local market knowledge & boots on the ground.As @Dawn Anastasi mentions, there is a ton of information on the forums, in the blogs & on the podcasts about virtual/out-of-state investing.

MencarowNo Comments Given the Dodd-Frank Act’s ill-advised, uninformed and, frankly, insane assault upon seller mortgages as virtually “predatory lending,” members of Congress —who vote on bills they have never read (as a legislative director in the US Congress for years I can assure you that is true) — and cushy-jobs-for-life-can’t-be-fired-no-matter-what-they-do-or-refuse-to-do bureaucrats (who determine how the laws that members of Congress never read are to be interpreted and enforced) need to understand is that seller mortgages are not loans — they are installment sales.

If you want to find out real quick if the turn key company knows the area well, ask them to give you a virtual online tour on Google Maps and to walk you through different areas and whey they are good or bad.

I will give you a virtual pat on the back for this idea.  

I'm currently doing interior design/furniture rehabbing, but am getting ready to pull the trigger on my first flip.

My investors are happy, I'm happy AND the new buyers get a great deal...never saw the need to move furniture in and out of a newly finished space - let the buyers ding their own walls.

No furniture just boxes, bags of diapers, some used, Yuk, and food half eaten such as fish, and more.  

Depending on where the condo is located, and the state of the decore and furniture, she may be able to rent it fully furnished as an executive rental.  

In the last 24 hours, I took a headache off a busy man’s (dad’s) hands, am hooking up an international student with a baby w/ new furniture, baby stuff, and a place to live, and borrowed 5yr funds supported by the cash flow from this deal to back-fill the equity I put into my last 50/50 fix/hold purchase, ALL WHILE WEARING FLIP FLOPS ;) , and most of the work will be done as I’m on a train to visit family in San Luis Obispo for Tday!

Virtual Assistant.How I have set up a small company, with Virtual Assistants.Here is exactly how I do it.Why do I like to work with VA’s?