I use excel to keep up with my properties, very powerful and customizable.

There are some products out there which sit in the middle such as 5-10% down payment conventional loans which have PMI until you reach 20% LTV, and then PMI can go away.

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Excellent place for low income tenants--and they let me know as much. 

Walmart, on the other hand, has a beta of 0.48, which also makes sense because even in a downturn people are going to continue to need groceries, and since Walmart has cheap products, people will continue shopping there, which means Walmart won't experience as severe of a downturn as the average company.If you apply that to a real estate market, I would think that cities with high tourism have high multifamily betas (maybe Nashville as an example).

Trying to locate local meet ups or groups can also be very productive. 

I’d add the gurus you speak of are excellent at self promotion much like other highly successful people in different venues. 

To give you an example, we walked every 5th unit at an 800 unit property, but only took notes on paper and used excel to track and estimate costs.

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So not sure worth prospecting the ones that get 1 case every year or two or three.....as some of those won't be sellers....maybe husband/wife survivors that stay in the house, kids move in, they already have a realtor, or some other excuse.You might get the 2020 list and run that for your county or local probate court and see if you can put that in Excel and shift and sort by attorney to see the ones who really are active and handling cases.