If you are out of state, I would definitely recommend establishing relationships with contractors, property managers, agents, etc. before you start to make sure you are set up for success. 

Hey, I am a new investor starting out in Birmingham, Alabama.

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It would be difficult to get any inquiries for MTR with an empty property even if you note that it will be furnished because they don’t know what “furnished” is going to look like (style, comfort level, etc.)’If your ideal target market is travel nurses I would start there.

My representative was super responsive and I was very impressed.

A week before the original tenants official move out date was scheduled they informed me that they were “dropped” by the lender and they are starting to work with a new lender.

I guess they did not clean the unit for over 3 years and did not call the old property management company when things started to break. 

Look at what happened in FL when they started using Chinese sheetrocks.

As far as a company to use for skip tracing, find one that has flexible pricing and no high-volume minimums if you're just starting out.

When I saw Antoine Martel from FlipSystem Posting Advertisement on social media like this:"You only need $10K ~ $30K to invest in RealEsate doing Flipping and make 100% ROI in 4 months""My clients in FlipSystem averagely spend 4 hours in managing each Flip Project""We help you to quite your JOB in couple of months by doing Flipping""We have few hundreds of success happy client - (Actually there might be few hundreds of clients losing their hard working money)"And lots of other advertisement stating: "Easy, Fast, Low RISK" in their programI thought: "Wow, doing Flipping is so easy and profitable and low-bar to enter in, I should join their program and start make money!"