Investment real estate properties bring up issues that are not present in many other real estate transactions. Typically the person making the purchase, is not going to be on-site. That creates certain issues and risks that need to be minimized in advance.

The investor also has a much lower tolerance for problems, because each expenditure reduces the cash flow for the property. Accordingly, it is important for investor to understand the types of risks that they are willing to assume, and prevent those that they are not willing to assume.