If you are browsing MLS listings you can use the 1% rule quickly ascertain whether the listing is worth further analysis.

You certainly won't get anywhere near the full market but you could maybe get enough to browse a sample of listings and/ or comps.  

Hello, new to BP and have been browsing around, lurking, and been  listening to the podcasts.

Browse what other property management companies do with all of their listing descriptions on available properties.Thanks 

I take this info, will browse the mls and quickly can do some back of napkin math to see if the potential property will pencil out using this approx rent and approx mortgage and service payments.

Both me and my brother are at this stage at the moment, I'm browsing all loans that I can that will seem beneficial between me and him.

When we were trying to downsize and were browsing mid-century homes, we realized how much we loved the old school features of our home.

Because there are people on every forum who do this, for all the haters out there that are about to moan and gripe in an attempt to make me browse the forum for hours on my own time for answers and provide nothing more than that, I am not talking to you.

From my experience (especially when browsing a competitive market like anything in California), the deals are usually discovered by (1) word of mouth and (2) going where no one else is willing to go.

If I am going to pay market value I will browse the mls to see what is for sale, not overbid for a tax sale property.In SC I was hopeful, since they are all in person that there would be some smaller to medium counties that wouldn’t be too competitive to where you could still get a decent deal, if it doesn’t redeem.