The capabilities of your bank play a role as does your local tenancy law w/r to partial payments.

A couple of options are you can either role play and say that you are looking to rent a property from someone and are just checking to see if the rent is fair or you can let them know that you are looking to buy a property and wanted to see what the rents in the area are.

When you're getting started you've got plenty of time to go visit people and its a pretty good exercise. 

I realize that Aaron is not the most common name ever, so perhaps it's a fruitless exercise...but I'm viewing this as an opportunity to create a "Pongo the Real Estate Investor" identity.

Going to clerks at the courthouse may be the softer landing and a good educational exercise on how to pull those leads.

Given their credentialing and licensing authority over non-bank mortgage servicers, state regulators play a central role and have a responsibility to ensure these entities conduct servicing operations in a safe and sound manner and have strong consumer protections in place.

If you exercised the option to Renovate using a 203(K) loan ORPurchase with a conventional loan, use your own money to renovate, and then refinance the money out after rehabbingHow did it turn out?

There are too many potential pit falls that can happen prior to your exercise of the option.

What is your role?

Their role is to control the crowd's traffic and detect items that are meant to cause harm.