a good realtor can pull a list of absentee owners for you in yor area. in my county i can go to rent court and look at the owners filing for eviciton/rent court and get their information. that's 1 way to compile it. same with probates, tehre's the register of wills. as far as vendors, the cost is relative to your budget. there are companies like site-x data, and first american realty solutions and haines who provide data and you can pull a list from there. another popular vendor to pull lists from is melissadata.

BBE is very , very cheap though, and relatively economical to run.Also , tom , how did you learn to do your electric?

I have a list of interview questions related to managing properties, landlord-tenant law and things that are my personal hot button items.

I can relate.

She told me to contact her when I have a house that I'm ready to purchase, even though I'm not using a relator.

If you're not deeply immersed in the numbers...know how to calculate them and exactly what they mean in context (i.e. relative to those same numbers in nearby substitute apartment buildings) then you're not ready to lead a deal yourself.

So, if we assume 7% interest rate (that's annual) and 30 years, the forumla is:PV (7%/12;30*12;-380)Other useful related functions include the NPER (number of periods) function the FV (future value) function, and the RATE function.You can use NPER if you know the rate, payment, and current loan balance to calculate the number of payments remaining (say, for a subject to deal.)You can use FV to calculate the loan balance in the future, once you've calculated the payment.

subject-to / lease-to > I've read this term a few times on this forum and it has been related to "little money required".

The fact remains that the vast majority of newbies fail in a relatively short period of time.

, various funding posts (there is a finance section to post in).I am not saying that these are bad posts by any means or trying to point a finger, I just feel that the site would be much more effective to put these posts in sections that relate to the thread topics.