In may area, Baltimore City, my deed would never get recorded until the water bill was paid. 

Leverage your experience and track record and try to network (friends, family, investors, etc.) and raise money on your own. 

If you want the cheaper option, record every expense and keep all receipts.

Out of 25 units we have a pretty good track record of no evictions or bad tenants (knock on wood).We like Facebook because we can get a small glimpse of the people we are renting to through pictures, messages, FB wall, ect ect.... its all out there for the public.

Simply filing the state records isn’t enough. 

So when I see a property that could be a potential deal I look it up on public record (using my MLS) to find the owner name.

Do they require we have a track record of tenants in the investment property?

As digital records are being compiled by our government with Corelogic, Uniform Collateral Data Portal® (UCDP®) members, and others all the tract houses in America have information available.

Through the last couple of month, in addition to studying on the license I developed my knowledge of several real estate-related apps and software so when I am asking for an opportunity I would have something to offer as well, such as: Matterport, Inc (for making 3-D renderings of assets so that prospective buyers may take virtual tours)Repair Estimator Plus (for estimating the costs and expenses associated with each deal)Follow up boss (for centralizing communication)Cloud attract (for building landing pages)Wise agent (for email automation)LionDesk (for recording and embedding videos into emails and texts)Spacio (for digitizing open house sign-in forms) PalmAgent One (for estimating closing costs)Disclosures.io (for organizing and sharing disclosures)Dotloop (for signing offers and closing documents)Looking forward to hearing back from you.Best regards,Reza Rostamnezhad

You can also work with a virtual assistant to skip-trace...if you're looking for multiple records...we use UpWork for most of our VA work