All Forum Posts by: Edwin Duran

It is very, very hard to find clients in any other way than by word of mouth. You'll need experience and it takes time.

If you do not have property management experience then you need to make sure you have proper licensing and go work for a large firm where you can learn how it all works.

Building a customer base with no experience will be tough and you could ruin your rep experimenting on people's properties.

Decide if you want to manage houses, multifamily, commercial, etc. first.

Commercial will give you normal business hours and most weekends off. Residential your life will likely be  slave to tenants and issues at crazy hours.

Absolutely.  One is tax assessor's records and other is the recorder's records.  They have some similar information but often also have some information the other one doesn't.  The details vary widely from county to county.  These systems are often, apparently, home grown and often difficult to use.  Sometimes if you get stuck trying to find something in one you can jump over to the other and make some progress.

Contracts in force....yes, applications for anything......no! Must have the applicant's consent. Selling personal information is a great way to get burned. There is a reason banks disclose what they can do with information, it's on internet sites as well.  It's not the questions so much as the replies that keep me from being more active now.  Wow, selling or freely handing out social security numbers, address, full names, financial information, past addresses, personal contact information, probably everything but their pet's name! 

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