Lena When I'm considering a property I always go to the county assessor's website (often called auditor or something else) to see what the taxes were and if known, what the taxes WILL be and if any special assessments apply.  

I have found a couple discrepancies between the county auditor site and Zillow.

There would be some risk that the auditors would not buy the argument.

My personal home is listed on the county auditor's site - and on the MLS when I bought it - as a 4-bedroom.

They already have my name and address and know what properties I own from a quick auditors search.

From there, an online search of the auditor's/tax assessor's site yields loads of property information including the owner's name and often a current address.In most big counties, the clerk of courts has public records online.

That’s who I’ve worked with but my parents worked with another CPA he hired for the firm that I believe was an iRS auditor and they were very happy with him as well.

I will check with my auditor though, he may deem it a good idea.But I'd love to hear any information I'm missing regarding federal rebates available to rental owners vs. owner occ.

I too am an auditor, and work at night for a certain hotel.

I am an auditor who generally works 11pm - 7am which leaves me the daytime to do the other stuff RE that interests me.I mainly stay busy with the tax sale properties but as I am able to find them and hold on to them past the reclaimation period I then take my time in fixing them up for resale.This all started about 4 years ago so I am just now beginning to have some properties that are about ready to resell.