Should I invest my limited funds into a 'skip trace'?

The option is there to skip ad after about 20 seconds, then when I click that, it goes away and the thread pops up.

Many times they may be the owners.If that doesn't work, online places like your county appraisal district website may have the info you need.If all your digging comes up empty and you just have a great feeling about the property, you can try to use a skip trace service, but it costs and even if you reach them they may not want to sell.

Or did they skip trace you find your new number?

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Or you can hire a skip trace service to do it.

The liability is severly limited because I don't have to worry about if 2 or 3 tenants skip out.

Go to tracethenation.biz for skip tracing, this guy is the best I've found.

In fact, if you plan to owner-occupy one of the units I would hunt around and see if you can find 90% financing and skip the partnership with your dad.

You can market to people with retirement accounts (IRA, 401k, etc), advertise in publications (be careful on your wording here as you do not want to violate any SEC rules), and you can hold small meetings or even one on one presentations either in your home or for a breakfast/lunch meeting.