The info in online public databases is only as good as the people who put it in, and it should be obvious you can't scrape the bottom of the barrel harder and get worse than local government employees working on something as boring as property records.

I say move on and do not enable the X tenants behavior.

Those who are prospects and looking to sell: Analyze and create offers for buying the property at a price to enable selling to rehabbers at a profit.4.

I was looking to update my turnkey provider list from a year ago.It seems like a lot of them have gone away (more sense to sell to retail buy than an investor) or not reliable.Who are you using today?

I run the deceased name thru a title search, then look up the property on google maps. if I am interested in the property, I skip trace the PR or heir named in the petition,  then add those to a leads database.

You would add any unpaid amount to the principal balance each month and, if legal in your state, charge interest on that total.This, in effect, compounds your interest and enables you to automatically reinvest the small amounts of cash that would not be enough to fund another loan.

I made the changes in my life that enabled me the opportunity to invest in real estate.

What each square foot is used for isn't going to appear in the public records, and you shouldn't trust what a realtor puts on the MLS even if it did appear there.The second could work, if you've got a database NOT based on the MLS or publicly available data for how much rent folks are paying.

I found a mentor in Dallas that I trusted and it enabled me to get the confidence up to purchase single family homes strictly for rental income in Dallas while I lived in Albany, NY.Now I have 10 deeds, 18 units as well as partial owner ship in 80 apartment units (doors) and live off the cashflow.I would suggest networking as much as you can in environments were investors have the abundance mentality and freely share information.  

That will enable you to learn to deal with all of the utilities, architects, regulatory folks, and develop a relationship with a builder without betting the farm on a single project.