All the experts on tvs, newspapers and magazine kept saying DOUBLE DIP RECESSION, DONT BUY INTO THE DIP.

Also each town will offer weekly/monthly business publications that can provide good insight, lastly the business sections of local newspapers provide good daily information.

Use Zillow and Apartments.com and Facebook for your marketing, craigslist is going the way of newspaper classifieds.10.

In yesterdays newspaper I read that a county official is trying to get the 2020 census taken during the turnaround so that all the temporary workers here would be included in the population count. 

If it seems to good to be true, it probably is.....ask the guy in FL who was just in the newspaper having bought a 2ft wide 200ft long strip under a couple of houses.You have to buy with cash....so be ready for that and know how they will take payment and how long you have to pay...normally same day.

The imperfections will telegraph through. 

Signs of distressed property includes 1) tall or dead grass, 2) boarded up or broken windows, 3) overfill of mail and newspapers, 4) code enforcement signs, 5) overgrown vegetation, and 6) deferred maintenance.If you're looking for quick turnaround then I suggest you buy a list from Listsource.

You should measure demand for homes via a rest ad in the largest metro newspaper and Craigslist.

@Perryonte Smith You can purchase lists and compile lists from city and county for 60-90-120 days late on mortgage, pre-foreclosure, delinquent taxes, water cutoff, code violation, probate, divorce, high equity, etc. and mail or cold call.Other methods are driving for dollars, door knocking, wholesalers, craigslist, Realtors, FSBO sites, expired listings, foreclosure sites, put out bandit signs, billboards, newspapers, other offline publications.You can use pay per click/adwords, facebook, Linkedin, Youtube, and other forms of online and social media marketing.

I understand that you prefer the local newspaper as opposed to going to the courthouse (if possible I would recommend the courthouse, just because there would be records of the parties attached to the probate and their relation to the decedent).