I'd say get them on by Christmas, because many people will have time off to do some home shopping, at least on the web.

Check out local real estate blogs, property management company web pages and more general type publications like newspapers.

What about property management, investment property specialty, short sales/REOs, creative skills applied to web site design for brokerages, wow them with your sample marketing materials?

We find them ourselves, peek in the windows, crawl under the house and then can call the listing agent to look more if looks workable.

Also check the attic/basement/crawl for junction boxes or faulty wiring.Plumbing is a little harder to diagnose without the water on, but it's also pretty obvious where there have been leaks in the past.

Depending on your locale, I'd demand one that will go into crawl spaces and into attics.

Completely agree...though my big point was that if a company has been scamming people for 14 years, there would certainly be more information about it on the web...which there doesn't seem to be...

This is the area most new investors underestimate, and it ends up ending their investing career, or at least slowing it down to a crawl.

If its a newer leak, I would not be to concerned about the structure. you may have to replace a piece of sheathing, but that's all, but a quick crawl through the attic space should show you if there are more significant problems.

I would try Googling residential real estate leases with your state in the search and see what you can borrow off the web.