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.

"BiggerPockets LLC".That doesn't mean you have to use the "LLC" part of the name all the time because you can also file a Doing Business As (DBA) for "BiggerPockets" which enables you to market under the new name which does not have the LLC addition.

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.

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.

I feel this info will enable me to understand and ask better and more specific questions.

The MD Register of Wills enables one to view decedents' names, date of passing, interested party.

We're working with a direct mail company that enables us to target by ethnicity within zip codes.

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.

Through solid cash-flow, it has enabled our children to start their careers with NO education debt.