While you certainly can try the MLS for this area, as I'm sure you've already found, this area is pretty heavily-followed and you'll have to be quite tenacious/persistent if you go w/ that strategy.

It's not in the greatest location but something we believe we can market because of multiple factors including the fact that it adjoins to a city park on one side that has nice amenities and on the other side it has 3 ingress/egress streets that deadend on the property line with utilities that follow. 

We got really lucky when we found our first duplex; we found it by following some “OPEN HOUSE” signs.

All you have to do is follow the lease as you would with any tenant.

Unbeknownst to me, I followed Ken’s advice on how to overcome this problem: leveraging your skills with OPM.Here is a brief summary of how I went from living in an 600 sq ft apartment in 2012 to owning a house in Seattle and 35 rental units across nine buildings in Everett.

When following that formula it might seem that you do less deals but in reality you do MORE deals because your money lasts longer.

Instead I sent them a notice raising the rent exactly the amount they were charging for these rooms (at this point they were on a "tenancy at will" lease).They must have gotten the point because while they did pay the increased rent the following month they included a notice they were terminating their lease. 

Easiest for seller and worst for buyer (riskiest)2) Go to a title company to pull title and check ownership ($150-$300) and then follow step 1 above.

If you paid $300K+ for the townhome that really is not a great ROI%, but you'd still be cash flowing $165/month from essentially doing nothing.The option to sell or not is up to you, but if you didn't want to there's always the following options for tapping into equity.1) Taking out a HELOC2) Taking out a traditional home equity loan3) Cash out Re-finance (normally done on free-and-clear properties though I think they can be done as long as you're above 80% LTV)

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