I believe real estate investing is a great avenue for myself and I welcome how much it has consumed me.  

And if I only looked at deals where the seller was willing to do a lease option or seller financing, I would have much fewer deals on my plate, and the person who is looking to buy a house would have a much smaller pool to choose from.

They're harder to find (fewer of them) but worth the search effort in your situation.  

They tend to attract more families in more cases which cause fewer issues with neighbors.

It will consume too much of your time for very little money.

Some consumer sites have better search functions and are certainly improving their services on a regular bases.It all depends on what you are looking for.

However, those homes that do sell do so for more money and in fewer days on market.Here are the numbers for the Cape (Barnstable County)Median Sales Price, $408,000, up 8.8%Average Sales Price, $557,323, up 7.0%% of Original Price Received: 95.4%, up 0.4%Homes for Sale, 1,408, down 8.0%Homes Sold, 740, up 0.3%Months Supply, 5.7, down 11.4%Days on Market, 75, down 10.7%Barnstable County looks somewhat different. 

There are fewer houses on the market.Buyer's market is where the supply exceeds the demand, and therefore, buyers are advantaged with prices.

I know this topic has a lot of forum questions dedicated to it already, but my go-to resources direct mail list resources seem to be set-up differently then in the past.I have used Reonomy and List Source previously for direct mail leads with good enough results that I'd use them again, however Reonomy has just recently been forcing an annual contract instead of monthly which is WAY too costly for what I need, and List Source has split up the commercial properties list differently then the last time I used them and almost all of them are listed in "Commercial: miscellaneous" with every other property types, and I have tried filtering differently with no positive results.My goal is to get "true ownership information"(Names, Addresses, Phone Numbers of people who own LLCs & INCs), but for now this is a one time thing, so I don't need an annual contract, and I don't want to pay thousands for Co-Star for an entire year or something.I do have TLO, however pulling multiple owner's information is very time consuming, so I'd like to do this only for a few select properties.Long story short, I'd settle for any ownership information whether it's company data or not, but I'd like to do a one time deal and get 500-1000 leads.

True, I'd avoided bad consumer debt, worked on my 401K, and did some saving, but I never started building a snowball toward wealth and freedom from a cubicle.