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Be sure to search or ask for any question you may have, it's great here!

Geographical Location: Japan (the most honest, reliable and enjoyable business environment on the planet, in my opinion - tenants stay for 4-5 years on average, with 15 and 19 year tenants not uncommon - NEVER intentionally trash or damage a property - honest realtors, sellers and insurance folk, etc etc)3.

Erin,Your local investor associations generally have a list of different contractors for investors to use.Companies that cater to investors understand you are searching for 2 things.

Get the names of investors (or their LLCs) that own more than 10 houses and search the county's real property records (not the appraisal district for taxes) under their name and find the bank that filed the deed of trust for their properties.

Jeffrey Mark - type in some terms regarding your question in the search function.

I've searched other forums to find advice on this but I'm still not sure where to start.

The key to the first call is determine if the are; 1) Interested in selling, 2) Determine how motivated they are3) Get an idea of the price they wantThere are plenty of people search sites on the net to help you find them.

Also, just search around the BP site, lots of great info here.

Use the search feature top right and read the topics at your leisure.Post your own topics to get involved.