Yes.Get a title company on your team and develope a relationship so that you can have direct access to title reports/searches.

Enjoy the site and GL with your investment search!

You have the benefit of learning about real estate w/o having to invest a great deal of money, aside from the yearly/quarterly membership fee( a nominal fee), and you get to network with other investors face-to-face and ask questions.You can do a google search online for Milwaukee's REIA to find where one, or several are located.

There isn’t a group of people on the planet more helpful and knowledgeable about rehab and retail investing willing to share their knowledge to help others.

I had a title search done ( I had done a prelimenary one) but there was a hidden lien.

It's pretty neat software and one of the most powerful internet search tools around, located at http://www.furl.net/index.jspthanx again

(‘takes about 30 minutes)Search Internet sources for Leads (‘take about 1 hour) Study real estate related educational material (take about 1 hour) This I still do!

I read a post on another board recently where a new investor was searching for a way to find the owner of a property.

If the portfolio includes any Quit Claims make sure to do a thorough lien search.

Search under the Help function for "Mail Merge".I would highly suggest hand writing all of the envelopes.