Well-intentioned, but there’s some uninformed advice here and misunderstandings about what can and cannot be adjusted.

You may have some one offs if there are backdue water/sewer charges or back due real estate taxes as well.

You could automate underwriting pretty easily, as well as scraping and feeding data into an underwriting AI.

Make sure you're targeting the right neighborhoods to invest in as well.

It also affects what our proceeds were for that year , so we likely have to file and amended return.Can there be an arguement of fraud in this type of situation 

It always seemed like a huge headache and probably not meant for a little fish investor like myself. 

It depends on what the numbers look like.

Horrible idea for many reasons...1) Without a decent down payment ~20%, it's very unlikely you'll cashflow after all expenses 2) Sounds like this would be a highly leveraged property - high leverage when rates are high is a dangerous game to play.

I'd like to get them licensed in California, but it is very difficult. 

I've used propstream, but I would like to find something that is just a pay per list, not monthly fee.Second, are there any tools that allow you to search for individuals that have owned multiple properties over a given period of time?