@Libbie Grant Welcome to the wonderful world of real estate investing where there are a million ways to skin the cat, all depending on your goals.My family has been in the Mount Vernon area for 20+ years now, so that's my farm area, while Anacortes is my place of work and hopefully live soon.

People will move from the relative poverty of the farm to the new cities and wallah a whole new economic sector will spring up. 

I'm an agent myself, and it's not worth my time.I like the HUD's but if I can farm out the upfront work for a reasonable fee, why wouldn't I?

I know a lot of real estate agents use it to farm certain areas for listings but I can't seem to find anything about whether or not investors are using it to put detailed lists together.

in my opinion, the best market for hold and rent are Jupiter Farms and Stuart.

Websites, or local State Farm/Allstate office?

- you make 50% of the net profit - that is net less advertising or expensive - so if the expenses are $1,000 you would make $9,500.00 and I would make the same.The expenses are usually the cost of advertising the property for sale.So............... it you are ready to begin creating leads - this is what I suggest you do ---Farm neighborhoods to look for FSBO's, send me as many expired listings as you can in the neighborhoods where we are going to invest, Go to housing court 2-3 times a week to listen to the cases and meet landlords after their case is called, run some ads in the local papers (I will design the ad for you), get me a list of all the local auctioneers in the community, put flyers on super market bulletin boards, ask 5 people a day if they know of anyone interested in selling their real estate.Look for commercial and business real estate for sale - get me all that information and we'll make a call to get information and make them an offer (you present the offer for us)Later in the "Mentor - Apprentice relationship we will advertise on radio.Any questions?

State Farm will insure under an LLC.

@Michael OldaniI've tracked multiple flip houses in my farm area.

You are not going to put in a farm sink and marble if you're no where near a farm and your neighborhood is filled with Millenials.