Know the area you want to invest in, you could enter the first part of a legal description, say souther Hills Block and see what pops up.

My experience with them went like this:I went to a "free" informational seminar because it was literally 2 blocks from my house.

While one block of houses may be in popular demand, houses on the next block may be sitting with no offers for months.

Do you just print copies of the checks you made and keep them as your stubs, and save them come tax time and take them to H&R block, or how exactly do you do it?

We've been around the block awhile!

Property is not in a war zone, block home built in the 70s with taxes at 500/yr. 3/2/(1 carport no garage).

You should always go to the property itself and find out, there are a lot of places that are block-by-block.

post ads on craigslist, make flyers and post them at REI meetings and get some bandit signs and put one in the yard and some within a 5 block radius and at busy intersections so people (cash buyers and investors) will see them.

Plus, its within one block of the square so that automatically zones it as commercial regardless if its a sfh or truly commercial.

I don't know exactly what everyone considers to be a war zone, but there have been a few murders in the surrounding blocks in the last few months.