Go to your county clerks website and read through the foreclosure documents.

Myself and a friend are looking to get into real estate investing, specifically buy and hold or flipping, and we've been doing our due diligence over the past few months listening to podcasts, reading books, etc.  

Myself and a friend are looking to get into real estate investing, specifically buy and hold or flipping, and we've been doing our due diligence over the past few months listening to podcasts, reading books, etc.

I think I read it before a few years back, but I want to refresh my memory.  

I actually just read an article to inform myself and it seems that banks use more than 1 method to determine the value of a property such as this one.1) They compare to other similar buildings2) They calculate how much it would cost to build an identical building3) They use the revenus and expenses (this method gives the lowest result)Perhaps my real estate agent was considering some of the other methods and took into account it's amazing location and the actual municipal valuation.

Dude, you are reading my mind. 

From what I've quickly read up on it doesn't seem like you need a license.

When I listen to courses and videos or read articles, they all say "sign the house ASAP then go into closing" and quit frankly it confuses me. 

I read any time you get a new tenant you have to go get the lead inspection.

My one struggle is that after watching plenty of videos reading the books and doing research, I feel like I don't know where to focus my new knowledge, and how to get that first deal in motion.