You can also do skip-tracing, which gives you the ability to find the homeowner's most recent phone number.

First, I would echo what Ty said with the emphasis that the call you received was likely a skeezy lender just trying to get you on the phone, find out what your interest rate is, etc, and try to beat it.

Finding tenants via facebook, craigslist, word of mouth, etc.. doing a phone screen, running background checks, etc.. takes A LOT of my time.

After several phone calls and eventually an in person meeting with Michael Ray from renters warehouse everything seemed pretty good.

@Dillon RansomeCheck county tax records for mailing addressThen Skiptrace for phone number

Found out later they didn't pay their electric and phone bills either.

I follow up with a phone call to confirm receipt and answer questions.

No email, no phone call, no description.

What you would normally repair on one house, another house same repairs the owner flips out and cries you're spending their money.When we get tenants who get carried away with repair requests (like 1-2 a month is ridiculous IMO) we usually get on the phone with them, level with them and then tell them we can find a replacement in that apartment since they feel its so bad.

Don't be the person that you can see taking a cell phone photo in the bathroom mirror :) Most importantly, reply quickly when people reach out with interest.