I'm very excited about this, because I view it as a way to optimize my opportunity cost in life.

In my view stove and fridge are essential, everything else landlords can refuse to replace.  

Recently I've headed a group of newbie  Chicago BP   investors that go out every Saturday to view properties and make offers using no money down lines of credit.

@Steve Vaughan Unethical and illegal are not the same in what I am describing.

You will get spreadsheet view, map view, individual listings, and all of the pictures for those listings.3. $10 a month I have a person who screens out properties that are listed every day looking for listings that are 70% below assessed values.

I'll let Shari handle the question @Shari PetersonFrom my point of view, I saw over 100 people try to use transactional funding in the past six years only to find out their end cash buyer did not work out.  

Do they view contractors as simply blue collar folks or businesspersons?  

The reason I like doing this instead of using a service like Mint is that instead of uploading my purchases at the end of the month and viewing how I did, this gives me a real time view in the middle of the month and I am personally entering the data, so I know the details more intimately. 

Upon viewing the property, although structurally sound, is filled top to bottom, room by room with "stuff" that the Seller promises is being moved out.

In my 'investment' situation (and perhaps short sighted newbie view) I equate the experts' approach to getting loans to invest in the stock market and therefore I cant imagine why I would want to have mortgage payment on my investment.