To be efficient at it, you need scale-up and money--money to subscribe to different list sources, a CRM, skip tracing, marketing, robo-dialers or virtual assistants, etc. 

Does anyone have suggestions on a good skip tracing company?

What I have been doing is driving for dollars, then before I started doing a deep dive to find owner information or doing skip trace.

My cold calling contact rate has dwindled down to 1% and I don’t want to spend a pot load on skip tracing and potential TCPA lawsuits. 

That'll allow you to skip out on any PMI/MIP fees associated with a loan.

Things went well for two or three months, and then headaches started.Even though all tenants signed one-year leases, one tenant skipped after only 3 or 4 months.

Thanks for the plug -Vashist - First of all congrats on making the bold decision to deviate from the norm and skip college.

I think you can only submit 5-10 per day.Skip Trace To find the owner’s number, you can Skip Trace them.

Skip it!

., so can skip looking at heavy fixer uppers if you definitely want to use an FHA loan.Also, not sure the plan with your friend helping you out-but if with down payment funds, if loaned, think they'd count that as a debt burden on you or require them to sign that the funds are a gift.