If you cant do it yourself you can hire a skip trace, but there are no guarantees on that obviously.

Some people skip right to the auction, bid, and end up with a property that has liens they didn't plan on, and it ends up being a big loser in the profit department because of it.  

That caused the big skip when the last bid came in, because it had to be large enough to beat the maximum bid of the other bidder.

From interacting with these folks, the majority of those I talked to told me that they did not drop their price because they could not drop their price.....not enough equity.A price drop, barring some creative financing, would have them paying someone to buy their house, and I have yet to meet anyone THAT motivated.As far as appending email and phone, I've noticed just recently a couple of new folks around the site who are pitching phone lists and skip tracing services, like Tony Battle and Ethan Summers.

Including high end skip trace tools.

Many of colleagues go into teaching at this point; I'm laying the groundwork for a late-in-life career in REI.)Lately I've been wondering: should I skip the SFR rental part of the plan?

It is the work associated with it, the unreliability, the amount of people you piss off, the skip tracing, the undelivered mail returns, the amount of hours you put in it, the lack of automation.No man.

Go for brass bottom meters with analog registers, skip the pulse output unless you have hundreds of units.

@Nakia Jay if you're looking to run a RVM campaign, then ListSource won't have phone numbers and you'll have to spend money getting your list skip traced. 

Info that I have obtained thus far:- City stickers on the doors for being vacant and water shutoff notice- Purchased 07/2016 for $135K; FHA mortgaged for $132.5K- Partial Claim Mortgage of $11,528 issued 09/2021 to catch up mortgage payments- Certificate of Forfeiture from county issued 04/2022 for delinquent taxes- Tax bill was paid in December 2022 by mortgage company ($0 currently due)- Water account has $775 past due, as of last bill date 02/28/2023- The duplex has a shared carport with an identical looking duplex next door (different owner), which has holes in the roof.I used a free skip tracer to find a number for the owner but wanted to get some advice from seasoned investors on how you would approach a situation like this, as newbie?