Check license status, experience as to years of service for the brokerage, complaints filed, administrative actions by licensing authorities, or do they have servicing available?

Depending on the municipality you may have access to the ‘Site Plan’; these are the plans used in the local administrative approvals process aka ‘Entitlement Process’.  

Database or any recommendation will help.

I drive for dollars, Craigslist, word of mouth but I can barely generate 50 leads per month that way so my guess is that we are accessing some sort of database to get letters and then drilling down to the desired area, property type, etc.Any advice?

Second, you don't want the additional administrative task of processing the bill and chasing after the tenant for payment.Make them set up their own utility account. 

With an experienced attorney familiar with PRPs and a third party administrator. 

@Christopher Smith Funding a PRT is unrestricted as long as assets can be justified and proven as needed for retirement, and can include private business interests, stock, and notes, if properly administrated. 

And it is still  much higher than my target (typical percentage that I allocate for my portfolio).Wondering if there are other strategies to reducing the premium other reducing coverage (shopping around doesn't seem to be helping so far since I am being quoted the same carrier).The house was recently renovated by seller so perhaps the upgrades are not in most insurer's database.

I was just wondering if maybe one of the administrators could give a estimate as to when the wholesaling calculator on BP will be available.

I went out and crated a custom data base of every single landowner with 10 acres or more of visible timber ( via aerial photography)  from the CA Oregon border to just south of Tacoma WA and from the top of the coast range to the top of the cascades.. literally 20,000 leads.... from that data base we had the reverse directory..