With using the heloc it enabled me to still have access to that extra payment I was making in the event I needed it while still be able to pay my mortgage down earlier.

Several of our resident CPAs enabled me to learn enough to do a successful cost segregation study on one of our properties.

As I kept reading through the forums and listening to the podcasts there was a common theme of letting a natural conversation start and extracting the information that I needed during that time, so thats what I aimed to do.

@Joshua Dorkin  for us when we target a specific asset class etc.. we create custom lists.In the old days it was lots of work at the courthouse.. then lap tops were created this enabled us to really home our list down.. then we reverse directed them and we called the folks. if we could not call or knock on door we as a last resort sent something through the mail. 

>someone said recently "you can't eat appreciation" and I liked that a lot.I have seen this before, but it is not correct as there are numerous ways to extract the appreciation.  

Make sure the contractor is able to provide references.In our state (Maryland), the Department of Labor provides a home improvement public query that enables members of the general public to check to ensure that a prospective contractor has an active license.

@Cassidy Burns within 2 hour drive of the DC area that will enable cash flow (once stabilized) of $500 with 25% equity after refinancing.

But at least in the Federal District Court for Nevada, that is the way things are being interpreted by the Chief Judge.The FHFA lawsuits relate to the Property Protection clause in FHFA's enabling legislation, which says that no Property of the agency can be foreclosed.

Any suggestions, outside of phone calls and personalized letters, to achieve the same rapport enabled by door knocking...but for absentee owners?

It’s not as robust as some of the other CRM’s, e.g. no automated texts, voicemail blasts, etc but you can extract a .csv file for upload into other products that do so.