Thought on PropertyOnion.com?

[Chris Heinmiller]

Morning BP!

Does anyone have any experience using PropertyOnion.com? 

Considering how crazy the real estate market is here in Florida, I've been evaluating alternate means of sourcing potential investment properties, one of those being tax deed sales. Although I have not yet purchased my first tax deed property, I have been spending a considerable amount of time researching the tax deed sale process and the tools that can be used to streamline the process as much as possible- one of those tools being PropertyOnion.com.

The website seems to provide a wealth of knowledge for pretty much any property you'd like to research, and provides data that could be useful to a variety of RE investors. Although the "free version" provides a ton on useful information, the "premium/ paid-for version" seems to provide wider variety of helpful tools and features that further streamline the RE research process. One of the most useful features on the website is the title search feature, but for $50/ search, I worry about the accuracy/ thoroughness of the searches (yes, I know I can do title searches myself- I'll post about that in a different forum). 

I've spent a decent amount of time playing around on the website and will probably go ahead and buy the premium version. My concern is that there aren't a ton of outside reviews (i.e. those not on the PropertyOnion website), but I don't think the tool has been available for very long (or at least I haven't come across it until recently), so this would explain a lot. 

Does anyone have experience with PropertyOnion? Is it worth it? I'm also interested in possibly taking one of their 8-week long tax deed investment courses, but they're pretty expensive for a company that doesn't seem to have a ton of credibility, although the "professor"- Phil Kessler- seems to really know what he's talking about and has been a guest on a could RE podcasts I listen to.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Chris