Our family home is paid off, so my plan was to use any equity we can extract from that as working capital for acquiring properties.

So when you are out and see a place you can instantly extract the sale info on the property run the numbers for you instead of going and using your own your spreadsheets etc.

I would hope that BP would want more great content than not so meaningful intros.

If you have access to a public website and need to ‘capture’ the data from it to create your database or spreadsheet for your leads (assuming your county doesn’t already offer the information in a spreadsheet format), the keywords you need to learn are “data mining,” “screen scraping”, and “data extraction” (I had never heard of either term to describe capturing info from a website until I went to craigslist and found someone under the ‘services’ section who offered IT services….and explained what I needed.

As with all licensing laws, it is a tool for the government to extract fees.

The study uses data extracted from local recorder, courthouse and tax assessment records to determine whether the purchasers buying foreclosed houses from banks, HUD, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are owner-occupants or absentee owners using single family homes as rental or vacation properties.

I don't do enough to measure an actual statistic, but it was a meaningful difference.And remember, only make one change at a time so that you can continue to test the differences of what causes a better response.Make sure that you are accessing a good list.Good luck with your investments.

No need to apologize for making a profit while doing it.I suggest that you also think about allowing real estate to catapult you into something (perhaps) more meaningful like charitable work.

I'm using the MLS to extract the data.

But in Pennsylvania, I don't see the nesting-LLCs plan providing you with any meaningful liability protection aside from causing minor annoyance to the party looking to sue you.