I only bought it a few days ago but the list is pretty great as you can customize anyway you want. I’d suggest to just go on there and make a list for the criteria your looking for and see what that gives you then decide if you to buy it. I narrowed mine down to 330 properties in my area and the list was $70 if I get one property from it then it will be 100% worth it.
I just bought my first list from listsource which was for multi family properties with absentee owners in my city and the surrounding 10 miles. They make it so easy on that website.
@William Coet Direct mail is an effective way to find owners. I'd suggest that you work with a list broker to get suggestions on the best list for your area.
For example, there are 1,212 multifamily homes in Lancaster County, PA. However, you might want to narrow those down based on home value, equity and absentee vs owner occupied.
@William Coet you can start by simply going on Rent.com and searching by the city or zip code and it will produce a list of rentals, give info on the apartment property. You can filter from there.
I only bought it a few days ago but the list is pretty great as you can customize anyway you want. I’d suggest to just go on there and make a list for the criteria your looking for and see what that gives you then decide if you to buy it. I narrowed mine down to 330 properties in my area and the list was $70 if I get one property from it then it will be 100% worth it.
What size multi-family are you looking for? I think lists would work well for the smaller multifamily (2-30 units). If you're looking to get into the larger ones, spend your time talking to brokers. It's a broker's job to market and sell apartments so they already have lists of apartments and have personal realationships with many owners. You obviously pay a broker's fee, but they spend the time making calls to their list of owners so you don't have to. On the flip side, they won't be exclusive to just you because they're chasing commissions.