90: Rookie Reply: How to Find the Owner of a Property (Without Being Creepy)

Real Estate Rookie

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🗓️ 26 June 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This week’s question comes from Joey on the Real Estate Rookie Facebook Group. Joey is asking: Was driving in a new part of town and came across a house that had a yard that hasn’t been maintained in months and the house looks unkept. Any suggestions on how I should go about finding the owner and asking if they would be interested in selling? We had a ton of great responses in the Facebook group, but Ashley and Tony will do their best to answer based on their own experience and their preferred style of skip tracing. You can do this both for free or for a fee, it all depends on which information you need! Here are some suggestions: Look up your city’s GIS mapping website and find the owners on the title You can also use Propstream to skip trace the owners for a small fee Reach out to neighbors and ask them if they know anything about the owner If the owner is an LLC, go to your Secretary of State’s website to look up the LLC owner And more in the episode… If you want Ashley and Tony to answer a real estate question, you can post in the Real Estate Rookie Facebook Group! Or, call us at the Rookie Request Line (1-888-5-ROOKIE). Links from the Show Propstream Realtor Airbnb Real Estate Rookie FB Group Real Estate Rookie Youtube Kyle and Lauren Instagram Check the full show notes here: https://biggerpockets.com/rookie90 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Real Estate Rookie episode number 90
0:07.8	Niner E
0:09.8	I don't even know how I would say that to try to throw a Niner there
0:13.2	I am your host Ashley and I am here with your other host Tony and today we are back with another rookie reply
0:22.8	Tony what is new with you today?
0:25.2	Ashley Care what's going on today is the good day for us we just listed our properties officially live in the MLS
0:31.8	So we're selling one of our Joshua Tree properties. We're super excited to see how this thing is gonna turn out for us and by the time you guys listen to this
0:39.2	We are hopeful that it will be sold right Tony and we are so so hopeful
0:44.2	But we're putting in the listing that whoever buys this house also has to buy my house and tree for it that nobody wants to buy
0:49.4	So they are a package deal for whatever investor wants both of them together and you guys have heard
0:54.7	About that property 10 times already and that is why I am so so hopeful that this property sells right away
1:01.3	So we're not getting pitch to property
1:05.8	But I was just telling Tony that I listed a property about three weeks ago too that hasn't sold at all either so maybe I'll start pitching now
1:16.4	They'll have to pick and choose between the bad investment in Buffalo and tree porcelain
1:21.9	But yours is cash flow positive at least right like mine
1:25.5	I'm like actually actively losing money right now
1:28.1	So if anyone has pity take pity on me first well ours is vacant
1:32.1	We rehabbed it and we were actually just gonna rent it out and then we had a realtor convinces to sell it and
1:38.5	We got all excited about what she thought she could sell it for and it is not selling so well either we'll probably take it off the market and
1:47.4	Rent it out or I was actually thinking of turning it into
1:51.0	Airbnb because there is a brand new beautiful vent center that just opened right next to it and
1:57.0	Think the closest actual hotel is maybe
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