One thing I did notice from one quick online search before joining Bigger Pockets is the number of properties for sale in the city.

Craigslist, online, referrals, etc....One last thing this website is nothing short of amazing.

In my area, you have to go to the County Clerks office (some areas you can do it online), but once there, you can check taxes (what they owe, where the bill is sent, when and who made the last payment), mortgages (what did they tell you they owe?

I am trying to find cash buyers using our county's online record search but am not sure what I am looking for.

It cost the title company money to pull a full title (they can do a prelim search and look some stuff up if its online) so they usually want to make sure you have somebody who can close so they dont get stuck with a bill for a property that will never close.

They also have some online education available.

Ira Smith I assume he checked the Broward property appraiser's site for a different mailing address, as they have the same doc.s online that we do.

And, if the RE guy flips the property and moves on to the next on, that is better and may serve as a construction company, but the rehab guys usually don't work as often or produce the benefits of a factory assembly line.All said, RE is on the bottom of rungs of the ladder in a way as investors tend to go with RE cycles, seasonal work, inventory fluctuations, it's just never been a steady employer like a drug store or lumber yard or small factory.

I have all of these sites up when searching for 1-Local Realty MLS (local vs national also has cheaper deals) 2-Crime Reports (at my price point, i want ot make sure you're only choosing "safe" neighborhoods and most municipalities have some sort of online presence with 30-60 days of crime reports) 3-Rentometer (this is a pretty accurate rent aggregator to tell you the low/medium/high rents for that address 4- Craigslist to see what type of rental activity is listed there.4) While you're there, meet up with some turnkey managers and property managers.

If these were "hard laws", most home improvement stores wouldn't exist.