That way you can test-drive the house, neighborhood, and area. 

Consider it a deep deep extremely deep buyer's concession. 

Excluding land, office construction, pouring cement pads and asphalt for the drives.

Heck, would you let a stranger drive off in your car without a background check?

Before moving anywhere to invest, drive around and check out the different neighborhoods and do some research to decide where you'd be comfortable living.

This will make it easier at the end of the year for you to quickly determine what is a business deduction.Accounting Software Recommendations - Quickbooks(Desktop), Quickbooks(Online), Stessa, XeroOnline Storage to save receipts recommendations- Google Drive, Dropbox, Apple DriveExcel - to save information such as tenant name, lease start date, current rent, etc

If you buy lists make sure they flag do not call numbers so that you limit your contact to snail mail only.Email is pretty ineffective as it will usually get automatically moved by email software into a spam folder and you won't even get their eyeballs.If you have appetite to throw rehab into the mix (either flip or BRRRR) you can add Driving for Dollars. 

We did partial remodel to the upstair bathrooms with professional help, my husband and I touch-up paint all the walls and it was deep-cleaned before showing, even my garage was shopvac-ed.

Due to unfavorable landlord-tenant laws as well as a crazy market driving properties up.

Driving around in neighborhoods you are looking to invest in ("driving for dollars") can help you find deals, as well.If you want to bounce any ideas off me or anything, feel free to shoot me a message!