We kicked out drug dealers.

There were drug problems, prostitution, and the likes in the park.

The home was built in the rear of the lot so we made the decision to lift the home and move it to the front of the lot and line it up with the other homes on the street.

Once I focused on one, I took off.Mistakes along the way: Bought a home on a major traffic street, still made money but the high risk was not worth the reward, bought a rehab project that had a legal garage conversion to add sq. footage to home.

You can drive and find them, you can go into public records and search street by street, or probably some other somewhat labor intensive things.I'd guess you can just buy a list from a list provider as well.Going back to the real estate agent stuff they might have the ability to pull that information from the MLS systems public records data.

Where you can get tripped if you aren't careful, is that you may lose street smarts.

Neither are wrong, but are very different.Many of our differences stem from what I see as your approach to note investing being slanted toward your type of operations and it seeming to be the "right way" as you have implied and in fact stated in the past as to you being the more "sophisticated investor(s)" as opposed to "street level" or "layman" investors with tones of being inferior in concept.Many of the approaches by institutional investors, who appease a pool of investors are not even applicable to the majority of individual note investors we have here, for example, the manager's rate of return is hardly applicable when that investor doesn't have overhead expenses, employees and investors, it's over kill and not appropriate.

Could be another bank, Fannie or Freddie, or some wall street company.What's owed is irrelevant because all that is in the past.

The word is DO NOT...touch on the street.

You need to look at houses in the area you want to work, and don't make it too big,,start with a zip code, learn everything you can about houses that have recently sold, check out every house on the market, find out what they later sold for.Know about the schools, does on street go to one high school, but one over goes to a different one, which one is more desirable (big deal in the area I buy).You don't get to know a market overnight,,it takes time, but until you start you won't ever know the market.Look at houses,,,lots and lot of houses,,talk to realtors, talk to investors,,you don't have to get an appointment to see the inside of all of them,,just check them out as best you can (an agent won't really appreciate taking you to 30 houses every weekend,,,