Again, this is from their website - We encourage buyers, sellers, and homeowners to supplement Zillow's information by doing other research such as: Getting a comparative market analysis (CMA) from a real estate agentGetting an appraisal from a professional appraiserVisiting the house (whenever possible)Why would they mislead consumers by promoting the site as the Real Estate source to count on.

@Marco Santarelli : You make an excellent point and as a new investor looking to supplement my retirement income, this is one of the strategies I am considering.

So you jumped thru all the hoops you have the deed and OAS in hand you go to the sheriff to evict … sheriff 5 days, 5 weeks 5 months later (depending on the mood) appears in front of the property (they don’t care about your timeline..) to evict …and what happens…people who live on the property are actually NOT the owner (that are typed in your OAS or lis pendens) but somebody who rents from the owner so sheriff says good bye and wishes you good luck… sheriff cant evict anybody as they are tenants and supplemental forcible detainer needs to be filed.

My goals are to build a supplemental retirement income for my husband and I (we are a little bit behind) and to build an income producing career for myself so that my husband can pursue an alternative career and leave his $140000 yr job without much of a change in living standards.

I guess then I could really see if it would benefit me to purchase an investment property in the same area.......or a foreclosure....using 203K.....Just do not want to pull so much retirement cash out for downpayment unless this will benifit me and supplement my teachers pension in a few years...

My goals are simple, to buy and hold the asset, pay off the mortgage using some of my money and supplemented by the current rental yield, and maybe in 20 - 30 years when the city center has swelled up past the building and it becomes more valuable , consider tearing it down and building a more appropriate structure. 

Mark's article was also a nice supplement here and is appreciated.  

What I do want to do is supplement my income and in a relatively short time frame, figure out how I can best use real estate to bring in cash sooner than later and to make this a full-time career.

I have used Cozy for several properties, and I would say that moving forward my process would be a combination of:Pre-screening questions before showing the property (this helps save us both time)Show the property, and then if potential tenant is interested enough in applying:Cozy Application and supplemental application (either paper or digital, if you can create one using, Google Form, TypeForm, JotForm, etc.).

This has led me to conclude that I would have to make some money through some flipping along the way to supplement my working capital.