@Alison MichelDOM can be used as a negotiating tool to extract a much lower price.

So it is similar to the flippers but instead of selling for a profit you keep the property, refinancing it hopefully to extract your investment (to invest elsewhere: leverage) and keep 30% equity while renting and having tenant pay down your mortgage. 

Does anyone have any experience with VAs and recommendations for a virtual assistant that can primarily look through sheriff's auction website content or auditor's website content and extract information fulfilling specific criteria?  

To know you would need to extract the information that they would be interested in getting.

"Investors are concerned that Spain and Portugal will need extracting.

And they're going to realize that the pitchforks and torches were all an unnecessary dog and pony show run by a ringmistress bent on extracting a great show of moral vengeance for doodling in wet concrete.And the predatory advice the OP has gotten here...Saw out a six-foot block of concrete!

Thousands a month are needed in advertising to extract good deals.

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But median rent is one thing and the amount of pain you have to go through in order to extract it is another.Is there a good tool out there for analyzing neighborhoods or several square blocks for things like average credit score/rental turnover, etc? 

We hired a plumber and the drainage issue was quick fixed, and water extracted.