You will also find info on this one in the Events section here on BP:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521-events-an...My new Apartment Investor Breakfast Club, which meets Friday, 9/9 and October 14.

I guess if I rented a rotary hammer I could skip the gym for that one day.

Skip trace for the owners?  

We use Zillow to find finished product in a certain geography, and use TLO to skip trace them and get them on the phone. 

If you are doing part-time, then there are some expenses you can skip all together. 10 weeks is not long to start a whole new career and I can tell you what firm I would suggest for a new, part-time agent.

Skip tracing provides nothing, neighbors say they know nothing, even the private investigator is having trouble locating information on them.

you know, Jaren Barnes who now works for my company actually wrote a blog post a while back (before he worked with me) on exactly how to automate Craigslist leads: https://www.biggerpockets.com/renewsblog/2014/04/2...Just skip down to #5 on the post. 

This was definitely retaliatory, as the only unit listed was the tenant who skipped.

What are the pros to skip tracing and was the information provided by the skip tracer valuable? 

You guys can keep skipping these low equity houses if you'd like.