If after viewing online I think the property has potential, I ask my realtor to preview the property for me.

While you can meet those requirements online, I would recommend attending live courses - they are great networking opportunities.

I believe options can be had for a few hundred bucks and go up from there, with modest training needed beyond stock buying online.

Practically speaking you end up at the same spot as a 75-80% on 20 year deal after a few years of amortization and rental holds very rarely go bad within the first two years because owners are likely to prop them even if they don't cash flow for a wile before they throw up their hands.

You should be able to look the owner up online.

Joe Gore No thats absolutely awful and I didn't even know that was a common practice.

Spend 15-20 hours on this site searching, reading, practicing evaulations, studying your market, factoring in your available investment money, then set some GOALS.

We could jump online and look up some values but much of that is block-by-block.

I think it's probably more practical just to contact people who have a face and a name listed.Good points from all of you!

It automatically generates monthly rental invoices, reoccurring bills like sewer bills, and has great reporting functions.Going even further I got set up on IPN (Intuit Payment Network) and now I email my rent invoices to my tenants and they can click a link, and pay me online, I then just click to receive the payment and everything is recorded instantly.There is a learning curve to some extent.