Either/or both will give you more useful knowledge (in my opinion), and one only adds a few glances over your shoulder in a process you already have in place.I can't help but see social media screening as a shortcut towards the same end as home visits, ultimately, but with less usefulness and a false sense that you're mitigating risk on marginal applications, if they even get that far, as you'll likely deny good renters who simply don't want the invasion of privacy.

I fount out from Grant Cardone and an Investment adviser I started rubbing shoulders with recently that loopnet is all the garbage deals the institutional investors passed up.I'm still wondering where exactly to go and find large MF properties though.

How many dudes do you know with 15 solid years of general building experience, a brain on their shoulders, and a good-sized crew like that who go hungry anywhere in America?

I had to install an expensive burglar alarm when the insurance company got on my case about it.The businesses a few streets over had bars over the windows and I was told never to walk there at night and if I ever had to walk there during the day, keep looking over your shoulder.

Almost all of my inherited tenants have either vacated soon after closing (or had to be evicted) when asked to follow the lease rules, or have this chip on their shoulder coming from an "I was here first and this is MY house" mentality.  

I sell to the highest bidder, 1031 into something out of state, they scrape the buildings, and drop in a pair of shoulder to shoulder 30' tall flagstone castles.You win La Jolla...enjoy!

In addition to the above, you could intern at RE firms to try out various career types that interest you and rub shoulders with industry vetsAlso, and this is something I wish I'd known in college - unless you have a liberal arts degree (and that's not even true in a lot of situations), any "business" degree will get your foot in the door for a job in the event that RE falls through or is a side hustle for a bit.

Ok, let's be honest, with everything that has happened the last few years, at this point, if Aliens Landed in Central Park after a swarm of flying pig's crossed the midwest, most of us would shrug our shoulders and say "huh, well look at that, neat" lol.      

You might gain or lose money outsourcing, but how does shouldering the burden of something you dislike so much or letting go of something you really love cost you- not just financially, but personally? 

In our personal case, we have a business ethos which basically says it the building performs so poorly that the heating/cooling and DHW costs are too much for us, then they are too much to reasonably expect our tenant to shoulder.