Also, make sure the companies doing your background checks are not the source of the problem.It's not surprising the applicant would be able to provide you with a list of previous addresses and landlord contact information. 

Such investments can be a powerful way to grow your IRA, but your IRA is not a funding source for your own personal deals.

I use list source for wholesaling.

Hey BP world, looking for some advice / criticism / validation / whatever. 

I'd also be interested in any aggregated source of data, if there is someone who collects data for multiple jurisdictions.Thanks in advance!

IF it is an FHA you won't be able to do the repairs yourself, but if the bank you are using is lending for their own portfolio then they MIGHT allow it but that is something you will have to work out with them.If you want a list of FHA inspection standards you can just google it and several sources will come up on the first page. 

I am a naive want-to-be investor (right now) looking to get myself to a good level of knowledge to pursue the field.And although the I live in the UK (where I'll invest) I've been listening to the BP podcasts in order to learn how to invest and how to think as an investor: which are not things restricted to an American information source!

Seems like renting to our own LLC would have roughly the same effect, unless you left out something critical to the discussion.

They're easy enough to plug into the property calculator, but having the right numbers seems critical to success.

If you do a Google search you should be able to find a credit reporting source depending on where they are from.