As for banks releasing inventory, that's been the rumor for about two years now, so while I'm still hearing that there's a flood of inventory coming, I'm not holding my breath...It would certainly be nice though!!!

A breath of fresh air!

I was using Zillow and taking the sold properties and filtering myself with Excel, but the analysis tool that Redfin has seems to work better.George

I couldn't breath.

If you have a manager you will need to provide addtional money (which is usually taken from the rent cut) for misc services and repairs which is going to be common on a older house that is not being totally remodeled, such as fixing leaks, changing filters (tenants are usually lazy in DIY areas), and other minor nuisance repairs that can happen at any given time.

Couldn't you set up a monthly inspection where it is signed off that air filters and batteries are changed and detectors checked??

You have to filter thru the chaff, but there are some sweet deals that come in.

It seems a little strange to me, but it may be standard operating procedure to filter out people who are not that serious about the investments.

They said it was most likely the bottom.Its true in the next week or two we may catch or breath from this huge fall but I don't think it's over.Wave 1 of the selling, was a bit of panic and also the banks/investment companies dragging everything down with it.

My realtor has a filter which sends me some properties once in a while, including foreclosures.