For those of you who flips or do a rental turnover that the renovation may last a while - let's say longer then 3 months - during such time the property will be vacant and you may have expensive tools laying around, as well as materials and appliances being stored at various stages of the process, what do you do to secure and keep an eye on the property during that time?

I accredit this site as one of my main tools and inspirations to get in to REI.

I am interested in real estate investing as an income supplement and retirement tool for the future.

Although i have gotten response from direct mail, skip tracing phone numbers using a wide range of skip tracing tools has allowed me to call owners directly.

I like to do a lot of my own work on properties, so I have a bunch of power tools and such in the garage.

Possibly writing blogs containing popular search terms or adding relevant tags to any images?

If so they have tools / websites to pull general rules of thumb together on how similar businesses are run across the US and should provide that to you.

I'm not quite rural, but it may still be popular here.

Two popular ones are Atlanta REIA and GA REIA.

RE-tool.