Now I use heavy pre-screening and knock out 75% of the people who inquiry.

It’s very much a door-knocking scene outside the metro area.

Let me sum it up...Are the Mortgage Police going to come knock on your door to see if you are living there? 

If not calk it up to tuition of hard knocks, and move on.

Get to know some wholesalers and do the same thing.Also find some good contractor that knows how to get that property together fast, and cheap.Mostly people with high experience will be more than happy to help you.If your not afraid to knock on doors than any of the above people will put you to work to achieve some very good skills in real estate.Always think outside the box and don't let anyone stop you!!

If so, you won't be able to knock it down.

Call the owners directly and if you cannot find their phone number go knock on the door!

You don't want the tenants knocking on your door at 3am when they are locked out or something stupid.

We self manage and it's not too much work (maybe a couple of hours a week).However, the key thing is finding a really good house cleaner that can also be your local point of contact on the permit (and if you need local feet on the ground of the occasional issue).If you want to consider self managing, you have to be willing to knock down a few doors and spend some time getting that cleaner / local point of contact.

After a few knocks, he finally stumbled to the door to let us in.Also amusing, while we were upstairs we noticed in the bathroom there was some bubbling of the linoleum around the toilet.