Good Luck - Sam "Comb through," means using sorting and filter functions is MS Excel.

Not sure if that's necessarily the case: I have excellent credit, only debt is my mortgage (no car payment, no revolving CC debt, nothing) and my wife and I combined make well over six figures.  

excellent responses.  

It’s an excellent place to start, and can answer many of your questions.

If your recorder/clerk/recorder of deeds has their data online, go to their website download all the deeds that were recorded within a certain time period (say six months).Then go on Excel and sort the names by frequency and you'll have all your entities sorted by transaction volume.

I pay a pro photographer $150 to take shots of my rentals.

Fortunately, I do have some cool excel skills and products that I believe can benefit any REI.Currently, working on my TX real estate license and completing the course.  

@Rick Pozos this was excellent, any idea on what a title search typically costs?

. :)@Wayne Brooks -  Excellent tip.

Inspections should be accompanied by lots of photographs so don't take peoples word that one was completed.I would be more worried about why there was no security deposit (bond) like you mentioned above?