You file a "Substitution of parties" with the court.

These capital flows influence the supply and demand for property and, as a result, they affect property prices.Also, interest rates also affect returns on substitute investments and prices change to stay in line with the inherent risk in real estate investments.

If you have access to that type of information and limit your 'buy' search to houses that the major systems were updated in the last 20 years you could come out pretty good.I don't think this formula is practical when you are big and are looking on bunch of deals, your township clerk or inspector wont be happy if you bother them every 15 minutes with questions on properties, they are not an MLS listing.But in some places there are some information avail online on tax assessor's site or state parcels where you can search every property, but be aware the information might sometimes be totally wrong and that's when you can make A killing when most investors rely on this information.For example we had A 3 family that was for some reason listed as A single family on the tax records and therefore most investors didn't bother to even go down see the property, nothing in the world can substitute going down to see the property by yourself and an experienced investor will see a lot   

Being that I was in school for the last 4 years I didn't have much work history besides an internship last year, but if you are able to provide transcripts showing that you were in school during that time then they consider that as a substitute for work history.

However, in order to really start to put all of the pieces together, there is simply no substitute for hands on experience be it picking someone’s brain on the phone, over lunch or ideally shadowing someone while they perform common everyday tasks of note investors.

A substitution of QI has been done. 

Your substitution of collateral idea is one you are considering in order to keep the installment sale in place and therefor continue to defer the tax bill. 

Those adjustable steel columns are usually less than $100 each and may be a suitable substitute until you can get an engineer approved permanent repair completed. 

Classroom head knowledge is not a substitute for experience built thru practice over time.  3 - Real estate investing is very personal. there are hundreds of strategies and options and ways to invest.

Others have said it, but there's no substitute for visiting the local county office and talking to all the departments.