I compared apples to oranges.. came home .. scratch down some numbers on paper to determine a new rent.. when it looked like a number people would accept , welp that was the new magic number.. all the vacancies were replaced with new tenants at the new rate.. work done in the apartments was painting, new carpet, new counters, new kitchen tile floor.. kitchen cabinets stayed the same as I didnt have enough money to replace. but oh what a difference new paint and carpet made.. had my husband rip ot all the old dead overgrown bushes outside ( he has a landscaping company) and I had my company ( my career was i own a housecleaning business) my company came in and scrubbed the apartments before new tenants moved in..

I'm lucky if they think to scrub the tub out with Ajax once a year, and you can't treat a re-glazed tub that way.

Low costs tools to help you thrive during this time:Propstream ($97/mo): data vendor where you can run comps and pull 10,000 records a month BatchLeads ($95/mo): texting platform; they scrub your list for litagators and allow you to send texts one at a time to keep you compliant. 

I would begin by determining which leads must be eliminated based on:1) Amount to cure too large for your budget2) Amount to cure unlikely to yield motivated prospect3) Eliminate corporate entities and perhsps churches4) Eliminate zip codes you don't want to do business in, if any7) I don't want vacant land deals, so I scrub those se8) I don't want commercial properties, so scrub those9) Use title company or other online sources for data correlation10) Use VA to scrub manually all repetitive tasks, once criteria and routine created I also perform other scrubs for situations that are proprietary to my ideal prospects.

I went to the tax collectors office today and asked for a Tax Delinquent list. I explained why and was given a 4,747 page report. I know that other wholesalers/investors have found great deals via this list however I ...

Also, it’s in the same format for every county so it takes the guessing and difficulty out of scrubbing the data once you download it.

I had a Virtual Assistant scrub an out of town owner list for the same criteria on the county recorder website a year ago for about $1000!

You could spend more time than money and scrub the list for houses that have equity by looking up the property info.  

Cleaning crews typically won't scrub walls, so using flat paint allows you to go in and do spot touch ups without it looking like crap.

They said they scrubbed it away with a bleach solution and haven't seen a reoccurrence but wanted me to know about it.