So, she started smashing furniture, smashed windows and threw my computer and monitor out the window.

So, once you have a handle on the kind RE you want to buy, and your investment strategy, you can start to pin down potentially suitable areas by the stats from your desk.I say 'potentially suitable' because desktop research will get you only so far. 

You can start there, but some of the better services are going to be TLO and lexusnexus.My process is simple when dropping voicemails; If they call back and I’m Infront of the computer I always take the call live.

In addition you need to compute a daily rate for rent.

Sometimes  I get busy and just can't get to it (or hate sitting in front of a computer with numbers) so I've used Upwork and hired someone to do that month.

Buying a new computer? 

Pumps, computer chips/panels, gaskets, coils, elements, heaters (those last three might be all the same thing - I'm not sure) are all in his wheelhouse.  

A higher rent rate suggests (and computes to) a home with greater value in the appraisers models.

This is a great tool to have just starting out (we didn't even have computers when I started).

I often have Zillow up on my computer.