Things went well for two or three months, and then headaches started.Even though all tenants signed one-year leases, one tenant skipped after only 3 or 4 months.

Thanks for the plug -Vashist - First of all congrats on making the bold decision to deviate from the norm and skip college.

I think you can only submit 5-10 per day.Skip Trace To find the owner’s number, you can Skip Trace them.

Skip it!

., so can skip looking at heavy fixer uppers if you definitely want to use an FHA loan.Also, not sure the plan with your friend helping you out-but if with down payment funds, if loaned, think they'd count that as a debt burden on you or require them to sign that the funds are a gift.  

Spend a few hours a day calling skip traced lists of neighborhoods that you are interested in.

We've been working to build some organic lists and I'm about to feed them to a skip trace service to get the emails and phone numbers.

What happens if they trash the place, don't pay rent and skip out? 

I don't like her and do not want to go thru her to contact the owner, but I do not have the owners direct contact info, can I just skip the property manager and see if I can get his number from someone else? 

I'll have to explore the S Corp option (skipping the LLC process due to additional costs) more after speaking to an accountant.