Asking if they own the address is just to make sure the skip trace was correct.   

This is a dollar amount, usually one month's rent, that's intended to cover damage to the premises beyond normal wear and tear, and to cushion the financial blow if a tenant skips out early on the lease without paying.

Ok where do I start, I would try to make this long story short by giving highlights and follow it up with my question.First time out of the parents house and rented with meHOA sent letters concerned that there might b...

From there, we skip trace them, and scrub for DNC and TCPA (some people still call on DNC) and then we upload them to Mojo and my reps call them until they get a lead. 

I assume you mean where do you get the money to invest. 1) If you have the enough money to fund it via life insurance just skip that step and put it directly into real estate2) Traditional bank financing.

.$1kThe title company will take the 80k and Pay off the 50 loan the seller had Leaving 30K Of the 30K20 goes to the seller Leaving 10k that goes to YOUThe buyers pays closing cost and is credited his deposit back (that 2k that he locked in the deal with)You now skip to the bank and cash that check !!!!

@Natalie Kolodij @Chris MasonI agree.One of my three hour workshops for SJREIA (South Jersey REIA) was about how to get financing for investing, and the first thing I teach is that a bank's job is  to lend money to people who don;t need it, so the overdressed, but dress for success, skip the jeans. the lender's biggest concern is, "how are you going to pay us back?"

I recently started skip tracing as well using Batch Skip Tracing.

However, your best bet is to skip trace the owner first and get it before it goes to auction.

1) Use a tool like Prop Stream to search for cash buyers near your subject property & skip trace through Skip Genie or Spokeo.2) Pull sold transactions out of the MLS in your zip code and call the brokers/ask if they still have cash buyers. 3) Export LLC's and Absentee owned properties in your zip code sold in the past 6 months - a year out of list source skip trace and call or mail them. 4) Search your city in the massive FB groups.