It's a local subscription site that allows you to search for lists of different distresses, search for comps, skip trace for owners phone numbers, ect.

You can start with private money and skip the banks, but for me, having a proven track record of success really put my private lenders at ease and I was able to get loans at great rates and great terms. 

I've only had to do that once, but it worked like a charm with nightmare tenants who had cut off all communication after skipping out.

At the meetup there was a speaker who was talking about his success to financial independent and when he went through his list of rentals he bought over the years it left me with a lot of questions. 1: Most of his rentals he bought in B+ to A area's in the 300-450k range in Florida.2: His numbers just didnt make sense, one deal he posted it showed literally like a +$5/month cashflow only....So afterwards i started to talk to him more and he mentioned that he is not the type that invest in cashflow, he is a equity investor... intrigued me so i asked more questions and basically he went on to explain to me that he buys properties that need a little bit of work, but have built in equity in the deal, but he has 4 main rules he goes by... 1: If the Roof is greater than 10 years, he always puts a reduction in his offer for a replacement roof.2: If the A/C is older than 5 years, he always puts a reduction in his offer for a replacement a/c.3: If the house is older than 30yrs old, he always puts 10-15k reduction in his offer for a water line replacement.4: He refuses to buy houses with pools....Anyways after a bit of talking he explained to me that he buys larger 300-450k houses, because most investors are educated to not buy them, so there is a lot of room to wiggle on the deals due to lack of competition on offers and most people in that price range are easily able to be purchased with a few % out of the deal to skip agent commisions..Example he gave me, he recently bought a 455k deal for 405k, but the ARV 535k, because he talked them down in needing a new roof, and a/c and offered to pay cash instead of going through an agent if he would drop 4% off the price for that... 

Most of the hotels they stay in don’t offer more than a continental breakfast, if anything at all.After their tour is complete, the company sends a maintainer to replace them forming a constant stream of workers out in the field.

https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/work-with-lenders-brrrr-method/The last time I was in Vegas, we met for breakfast and he walked me through this.

My goal is to have efficient, teachable methods, rent collection, listings, etc, so that when I am ready to hire an employee/employees, they can be trained to run necessary aspects of my business without skipping a beat.Any and all advice is welcome, and I thank you in advance!

I plan to purchase , skip trace, and cold call all of the properties.

In no state are you able to just charge her for all 12 months, because she skipped out on the lease.

If so, I’d skip them and save yourself future hassle.