Good morning BP,What reliable online tools are you using to determine the CAP RATE for an specific area without have to ask a BROKER or an AGENT.

Reliable and able.

Is there a reliable and worthwhile way to contact the city and see if they would consider selling us the property that has been abandoned for some time now?

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I would be able to gain experience, earn a little more, and possibly use that property as proof to the bank & lenders that I am reliable. 

@Eric Melin As others pointed out, flipping is tough and it takes a lot of skill to pull it off (access to deals, acting fast, having reliable contractors, being spot on with your numbers, etc)The majority of people I meet who want to start flipping never do. 

I’ve bought list but those list weren’t reliable at all.

In a finance book I recently read, they stated that roughly 1 out of 3 college graduates end up working in a job related to their field of study where 2 out of 3 of college graduates end up working outside their field of study.I recently had a specialized surgeon come to one of my real estate investor meetups asking if there was someone there who could teach him how to door knock to find properties.

Most property managers will negotiate a reduced fee with their vendors and then add their markup fee so you are essentially paying retail but getting the benefit of a qualified, reliable, responsive vendor.

I would imagine that being on the registry would make it difficult to find a place to rent so they may be really reliable and careful not to do anything that would get them evicted.