But, most property managers will provide a portion of their services for a lower price, e.g. you only want them to do maintenance, not to collect rent or provide financial statements, and they'll do that for 4%.

If you want to do it yourself then try http://zillow.com or your county auditor's website for recent sales of similar houses.So after you have the comparable sales data you will want to estimate the cost of repairs to the house.

If you pull someone's credit and let's say they have had a foreclosure 3 years ago so you're skeptical, you can do a financial verification report that will provide you with 12 months worth of income, cash flow, assets, and line item spending, that tells you if your tenant is approved for your rental amount based on the data.

I noticed I had something in the "Collections" section that's been buggin me and I'm not sure what to do about it.

I am either thinking of buying distressed HUD 2-3 units home and rehabbing it, or purchasing a 2-3 units near a well known University and collect rent.

Based upon this data we are looking at a projection of over 50 Major Disasters to hit the US by the end of 2006In addition, we are still recovering from fires in California, Colorado, New New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.Yet, we are still going to have to deal with past Hurricane damage.And we still face dry conditions in various parts of the United States that produce fires and we have yet to step into the Atlantic hurricane season that lasts from June to November, with the peak season from mid-August to late October.On top of all this over 350 tornadoes have been recorded as of April and this could be one of the most active and deadly seasons in historyFor more data see: http://www.spc.noaa.gov and To compare from 2005 to 2006 see: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/monthly/index.htmlAs an investor we are tough to research property titles, market value and market trends but one major area that is left out is storm trends.Why storm trends.

We handle collections, evictions, repair requests, marketing, leasing and much more for each property internally.

If you are working with a builder, putting together one of these, it is a good idea to ensure that all the funds from the loan are run through a title company and all bills to vendors are paid out by said title company, who then collects Lien Waivers.

I'm sure you're not the only one doing real estate on the side, just ask around.As for determining sales price... you pretty much need to get MLS data for that.

I have seen an add on the newpaper about data entry on the internet for cash.