There's a lot of information online and looking to the forum for professional advice.

He then went onto their website online and researched their property management online and was shocked.

I'm not familiar with Rochester aside from driving the area & looking at rents/sale values online.

I'm not familiar with Rochester aside from driving the area & looking at rents/sale values online.

You can also check their reviews online at Google, Facebook, or Yelp.

Depending on your area its also possible you can do searches for property types on the online property tax assessor database.

You can use online sources to draft it up for cheap (rocketlawyer, legalzoom, etc).

Check online reviews.

I've also polled several of the people in my network (contractors, flippers, wholesalers, brokers) asking what they are seeing.Below is my updated budget (padded) for Spring/Summer 2021. (1) Note that the 2020 numbers are a padded (I pad everything) high average of budgets pulled from 4 houses I flipped in the PNW in 2019-2020. (2) If the official numbers were below inflation, I used Inflation (Shadowstats.com). (3) The overall increase in price on my breakdown is close to the overall data I've found online, which makes me think I have a decent updated budget for eyeballing deals with. (4) To reiterate, the numbers I started with were unique to my situation in the PNW, so please don't take them as gospel for you!

We don't have tenants fill out applications until they complete an online pre-screen questionnaire.