Every customer (home buyer) deserves a working quality product.I always put new heating systems in unless they were recently replaced.

There are companies that purport to offer this information via subscription, and research services that will offer more customized data collection services.As my friend Ward Hanigan says about the inconvenience of having to manually pull data for leads vs. online access, "What's bad is good, and what's good is bad."

Tax sales and real estate laws, customs and procedures in general are state and often county or municipal specific.

A PM should have a written policy on how the manager will interface with the customer (the property owner).

However, for many of us who have another principal business or profession and invest in real estate as a side venture, our time is typically better spent billing our customers in our "real" job or undertaking strategic business activities as J Scott outlines and not swinging a hammer.In my case, I've spent time cultivating relationships with my carpenter, plumber, electrician, etc. and have built a small crew who handle much of our renovation/rehab work {much as John Carpenter describes his role above}.

The bigger question is - would sending a Yellow Letter send the right "message" about your company to your potential customer.

Draw a 1 mile diameter circle around it, and run a custom search to identify those properties that have sold for cash in the last year.

I know that census has lots of information but they don't offer tools such as simplymaps's custom settings.

You're clearly fulfilling that role—leading by example—and I think it's fantastic.I think any dated custom that you find on re-run television would deserve a look.

The lenders are the customer.