Is Bird Dogging a Waste of Time?

[Chas Fabiano]

I can understand if you are doing some everyday driving and spot a vacant property or a property in disrepair, but wouldn't a person's time be used wisely online?

Does listsource or listability have ways to search for vacant homes?  If so, driving by the address to inspect the property makes sense.  

After the "drive-by"(no guns please), pull up the property information on the tax assessor's website. 

Does this make sense?  Is it more efficient?

[Ben Leybovich]

Originally posted by @Micah Copeland:

It has always baffled me why anyone would "bird dog". Why would you drive around and find a property for another investor? Finding the property is the hard part! The rest, as long as it's a deal, is easy.

You'd do it because you either don't have the education to structure a deal on your own, or you don't believe in yourself enough to try. No other plausible reason that makes sense...