If I'd have called my landlord a couple years earlier and found out he was interested in seller financing I could've saved a third of the price vs. waiting to ask about buying it 'til my self-employment and rental income made me able to obtain conventional financing.

Then I found this property through my broker. 

Hello, BP I have a property that I don’t have under contract but i have been researching and found a property that the owners are deceased and I have skip traced both of the owners relatives and still haven’t got down to the bottom of how I can contact who owns the property now, they are also behind on there taxes.

We went inside and found missing and broken appliances, missing 2 doors, damaged and broken 2 doors.

For credit and criminal background checks I've used AmerUSA.com / RealSerious.com (I've found it to be the cheapest)

It can be found for free here on the bigger pockets website. https://www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investing

We found our acquisitions reps are able to produce far more by removing the task of comping from their plate.

I originally rented my own unit out and did all of the marketing and found a tenant in under 2 weeks.

I tried the same strategy in Indiana and found the market to be slimmer pickings there. 

I also found a property manager that I will be asking about the area.