But have a regular evening schedule to help yourself and your contractors who know and understand your goals.There are a few things for you to do after you select your niche and market area and before you start making offers.  

Hi Collin,In addition to what others have already said about Zillow, there's no way in the world that Zillow's algorithm is taking into consideration the unique 2 homes / 3 units configuration of that property and doing accurate comps.Zillow is by no means a "starting point" unless your property is 100% vanilla for the neighborhood. 

to be a popular place for guests and investor competition so you can do better by dominating the niche you select.  

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I would never have rented to her for many reasons, primarily because I have no reason to gamble on high risk tenants.Be very careful in the future as you are likely only going to get that lucky once in your life as a landlord, don't let this success story influence your future tenant selection. 9 times in 10 a landlord would have been seriously burned by this type of tenant. 

I used listsource since it's what all my sources(from books to youtube) recommended.I am currently trying to find pre-foreclosures and tax lien preforeclosures leads using listsource and what I am finding in my market is when I search for properties in my target zip codes (sfr, duplex, triplex, quad) and then select pre-forclosure from the property tab select pre-forclosure my results drop to 0 :/I broadened my search to include all of the Minneapolis areas and I get just 248when I go to the foreclosure tab and select pending auction sale( i was instructed via youtube this is where I'd get people whose houses are headed to tax lien foreclosure but the date of the auction hasn't been set) and set it even a yr out my results are zero!

As others mentioned, the market is saturated with investors and yellow letters aren't seen as unique anymore.

Hi Friends and Colleagues,Looking for some advice on the following property:Physical and Market Characteristics: small farm house, unique in desirable area, long DOM for sale short DOM for rental due to schools.  

Other than that the complexity of a reverse make it imperative that you get a QI on board who's got a bunch under their belt  The structure to make them work is so key and unique to every situation.