You should be able to look the owner up online.

Joe Gore No thats absolutely awful and I didn't even know that was a common practice.

Spend 15-20 hours on this site searching, reading, practicing evaulations, studying your market, factoring in your available investment money, then set some GOALS.

We could jump online and look up some values but much of that is block-by-block.

I think it's probably more practical just to contact people who have a face and a name listed.Good points from all of you!

It automatically generates monthly rental invoices, reoccurring bills like sewer bills, and has great reporting functions.Going even further I got set up on IPN (Intuit Payment Network) and now I email my rent invoices to my tenants and they can click a link, and pay me online, I then just click to receive the payment and everything is recorded instantly.There is a learning curve to some extent.

There are so many online agencies that offer this.

My goal is to network and share best practices with like-minded people who are investing and property managing smaller properties in the DMV region.

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I also used some online tools: Narrpr.com; trend mls to determine the arv, and local rents.