Several had mint green walls with dark brown trim, and hardwood floors that hadn’t seen love in a very long time.

Most of my screening comes from gumshoing social media, web court searches and following up on references.

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Consequently, we do our best to bring in organic leads through our web and social media efforts. 

One of my criteria for investing is not to buy in any area where I would not feel comfortable sending my wife to collect rent in the dark.  

I have searched the web to find some paid subscriptions like Monarch or YNAB or Empower.

They could still be shopping around thinking they can just change their mind if they find something better while leaving you completely in the dark.  

His comment on costs was $4k-$6k but I have no idea what that includes and I think it was a guess having no foreclosure experience in AL.Do you have any good web sites I can read about the process or anything else not immediately obvious?

HUD publishes the Median Fair Market Rent on their web site for the entire country.

If you want to go down a deep dark rabbit hole, and I don't want to get outside the scope of BiggerPockets, but look into "15 minute cities".