He called the police, filed a report but didn't press charges, and helped the tenant remove his things out the next day so we could get it ready for the new tenants.Kelly 

To give some background on my self; I became an accidental landlord in 2010 when I couldn't sell my town house in Newport News, VA before moving home to SC.  

Opps accidentally hit post The circuits even out through the other phase like they always do. 

@Charles Press,That is my tip of the day.Joe Gore

Other than the Sentinel and the Mountain Press I haven't found many other options here as many of the records are not online and what are online are extremely difficult to search.We have one property in Pigeon Forge and have been looking for more, but the good buys are usually gone by the time anything hits the MLS.What will you be doing with the properties you find?

Personally, from my limited experience, in very hot or premium markets like Boston, NY city, Socal, Bay Area etc, the 65% or 70% rule doesn't really apply unless you plan on buying in the war zones in these areas and even then I think you would still be hard pressed to find a deal at those numbers. 

In metropolitan areas of So-Cal you will be hard pressed to find a 2% deal in 2014. 

@Mark Ferguson   and then the accidental listing I get here in PDX.. for 300 to 500k or more because they are past clients and I make a 7 to 15k commish for just listing and maybe working 10 hours or less on the listing sure is nice...

Then I accidentally stumbled upon an article that changes everything in the way I think about real estate and investing in real estate is something I really want to do now.

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