As a recent college engineering grad who formerly had only been exposed to the typical American life (piling on as much debt as possible in hopes of keeping up with the Joneses), you guys have really got the gears turning in my head and have opened a new way of thinking for me.After recently obtaining a good paying job, I almost made the mistake of buying a new truck and taking on some of the other bad debt that comes with most college grads; instead, I have chosen to put my eggs in the real estate basket.

I have used Old Republic Title (in Monterey) and First American Title (in Salinas) in the past, but not for wholesaling purposes, and to be frank I never really analyzed my title company in terms of "investment friendliness". 

Hi everyone, overall goal is 8-10% COC and total 15-20% ROI 5-10 year period.  Strategy right now is to place 50% of the cash on syndicates focusing on class B/C residential assets and another 50% of cash on single fa...

The biggest difference is that you now have 75% of someones net worth and as a society we have decided it is a licensed activity....

You're doing 5x better than the average American. 

This is the exact business model of Wilmington Savings Fund Society, Deutsche Bank, and the former business model of Morgan Stanley Home Mortgage. 

I like American Factfinder though.

I have access through the title company (First American) and a company called realist. 

@Kalen JordanThe American Community Survey provides vacancy data every year at granularities ranging from the state level all the way down to block groups, which are much smaller than neighborhoods.

@Bobby Dirkmaat Bobby I live in american fork and love talking real estate with others.