Don't think you can skip this step.

Hi, how could I best answer "How did you get this number?' when skiptracing someone's number?Also, after retrieving number, how do you know if it's on a no call list?Thanks!

At best we would hit on some tired landlords looking to sell at worst we would make connections with local landlords.if you’re looking to go software, batch leads and lead Sherpa to skip trace is what we have used. 

Cost of doing business - make sure you aren't skipping over great deals over the potential to waste a little appraisal fee.

Finding distressed properties is a great starting point (driving for dollars). 2) Drive for dollars aka looking for physically distressed properties and then skip tracing those owners.

She took some poor soul in Tx for over 150k and skipped town before anyone could find her.

Or, if real estate is your passion, would you have skipped being a MD, attorney, engineer, middle manager, ad man, etc. and gotten a college degree in real estate, or started a first job in real estate?

The seasoned folks develop their own skills with doing it.Now, you can keep trying to "be too smart to fall for that" or you can learn how much you need to learn, learn it, and then start being profitable.... or, keep over-complicating things doing stuff you shouldn't while skipping over stuff you don't know that you should be doing and talk yourself out of REI altogether.It's up to you.

Filling out an "application" isn't unreasonable (though skip the paid credit check - not relevant, since they have already been paying the rent). 

I think they do it annually, but they skipped 2021, so next assessment notices will be 3/2022 in effect to 2023.