In my area they only give me what I can pull for free on the property viewer website.

I have found this site to be very helpful because it can connect you with some very good contractors that are not as well known as the big companies you see and hear on tv and radio. 

Be careful of the ones that want to only want to sell you their education, especially the ones with TV celebrities in them.

Google your [county name] Parcel Viewer or the equivalent of that in your area.

One had gone to a $25,000 weekend course with with reality TV stars.  

Every time I hear Pinellas County I think of that TV show Cops, cause they film there so often lol.

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But the TV shows have glorified "flips" and now everybody thinks they can do them and make lots of easy money.

It is not the glamorous fast cash transaction you see on TV or hear about on the radio.

Then there's not much you can do if someone wants to camp out in the basement or sleeps on the sofa in the tv room.