For what I seeing, the west side is the most popular for student housing, although, the areas are a block by block kind of thing.

BUT you have to have access to quiet money or bank loans... there is hard money for this but your returns will go down to 20% or so if you borrow at too high a rate.I bet you can do this in CA pretty easy to doing infill in the more popular towns. and metro areas.

The podcasts are particulrly popular.

That was before the buyer's agent agreements became so popular.

There is one . . . look at the links to the left of the forums and in the area labeled Popular Links, you'll see a chat link.

Borrowers who obtain FHA's popular Section 203(b) Mortgage Insurance for One- to Four-Family Homes are eligible for approximately 97 percent financing, and are able to fold closing costs and the up-front mortgage insurance premium into the mortgage.

Here's a list comparing popular browsers.http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/FreewareBrowsers.htmlI love Opera (not the music).

Its popular, so Im guessing they do.

I know some more popular sites like ESPN.com have regular chats that really drive traffic to the site, not to mention allow people to explore areas of the site they never would have otherwise.

a good realtor can pull a list of absentee owners for you in yor area. in my county i can go to rent court and look at the owners filing for eviciton/rent court and get their information. that's 1 way to compile it. same with probates, tehre's the register of wills. as far as vendors, the cost is relative to your budget. there are companies like site-x data, and first american realty solutions and haines who provide data and you can pull a list from there. another popular vendor to pull lists from is melissadata.