I've had inspectors stop by (and drive by) randomly many times.

Or does it just pop randomly when these heavy loads are not running?

Random luck someone saw me putting the lockbox on and asked if I would sell the place.

I believe you'll have to sign up somehow to report information to them and I'd imagine there is some sort of landlord screening process and requirements to make sure that random people don't just sign up and send them faulty data on tenants.http://www.experian.com/rentbureau/renter-credit.html

It reads like a random list of by dates and keywords.

But, I'll also add that a listing agent is much more likely to have a frank discussion like this with another agent than with a random potential buyer.I'd find a good buyer's agent and have them contact the listing agent on your behalf...

If the seller just placed some random tenants in order to have the place occupied for the sale, or if the tenants are bad tenants with a poor payment history or in need of eviction it would subtract value.

The other two units may never reach that level of profitability, but I bought that duplex before I found BP.Because I've only been investing for about 18 months, I'm setting aside 10% of my gross monthly rent for those random repairs.

It seems that Banks are a bit random in who they work through on REOs?

As to the other post to call and get a comp check, most appraisers will do this for there good clients few will give you the time of day if you just call at random looking to waste there time.