Renewed leases with several of the tenants.For Hawaii, I did the same thing -- pull up credit report, look for public records, check references.

Located on a quiet all-townhouse street, yet within a few minute's walk of public transportation, shopping, parks and nightlife.

Half of the states in the union require some sort of financial education in their public schools.

@Glenn McCrorey  A Tv show then a  marketing company like Premier marketing out of Utah to create and run your travelling guru business... or as they put it their education business.All public figures do the same in some capacity..

If it's just your own, that's one thing (although it's still worth talking to a lawyer about, especially if this is a business that's open to the general public and not just select investors you meet and develop relationships with), but if you're placing other private loans or things like that, you definitely need a license and all that jazz.

I rented a locker at Public Storage (first month $1 special), had movers haul it away, sent a letter to the love shack saying "here's where your s**t is.

I'm impressed by BiggerPockets and can thank you for saving me tens of thousands of dollars on supposed RE Investing gurus.I'm not big on social media (one of about three on the planet without a Facebook account) and making private things, public, but I am ready to start and succeed on my own in real estate and realize I need to start putting myself out there since I'm now ready to go. 

Professionally, I have been in public finance for 20 years so have funded a fair share of development projects, so have an aptitude, but would now like to put a bit of that knowledge toward my own endeavors.  

Maybe after you've mailed out the to the absentee list, you could do a separate campaign to the code violators with a postcard like "I saw via the public records your property had a code violation and you received a fine.

We've been doing our own checks through Accurate Credit and checking our own tenant criminal record through Wisconsin public records.