I perform preliminary background checks including social media searches on all new prospective tenants and lease signees'. 

Many are trying to build computer models to identify a good deal, until we have artificial intelligence perfected RE is a knowledge game, a social interaction, a boots on the ground thing to verify valuation, condition, location, utility and function, things you can't put in a program, nor could you obtain the property data to input. 

Implementing this idea would not disclose any personal sensitive data like social security, credit score, etc.

I personally attend meetups and REI groups to network and network on social media.

( I'll tag a few people that I know are on top of it all, and if you can tag a few that you know are active with social media ... ) @Brandon Turner @Joshua Dorkin Account Closed

Should a new agent starting out pay for many different marketing tools or just focus on social media?

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