Resources for identifying neighborhoods with foundation issues.

[Greg Caponigro]

Happy New Year!

I'm trying to identify my market and I thought I had found a neighborhood that I could start investing in. When I spoke to an investor friend of mine, they suggested staying away from that neighborhood because it was built on top of a swamp and that the houses there have a higher likelihood to have foundation problems.

I wanted to see if there is a way to verify their claim. Are there common resources out there that would have foundation statistics about different neighborhoods?